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• She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.

  Colum McCann

  Pain, People, Endurance

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.290, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• What I know is, you have chance in life--of surviving it--if you tolerate loss well; manage not to be a cynic through it all; to subordinate, as Ruskin implied, to keep proportion, to connect the unequal things into a whole that preserves the good, even if admittedly good is often not simple to find.

  Richard Ford

  Loss, Simple, Chance

  Richard Ford (2013). “Canada”, p.511, A&C Black

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• I can't say that I was my happiest on court, but I felt completely free. Free from family obligations, free from my own torment. In a real sense I was a different person. It was a place where I could not tolerate the idea of being beaten. I psyched myself up into a state where I felt something close to hatred towards my opponent, a state where I detested the idea of someone making his name at the expense of Jimmy Connors. I was in my element on court, measuring myself against someone else. I was not competitive for show. It came from deep within.

  Jimmy Connors

  Real, Names, Ideas

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• A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

  Robert Frost

  Crazy, Mad, Society

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• You have to be able to tolerate what you don't necessarily like so you can be free.

  Larry Flynt

  Able

  "Publisher Larry Flynt". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 22, 2011.

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• AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals. It is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

  Jerry Falwell

  Stupid, Silly, Punishment

  "Grand Theft Jesus". Book by Robert S. McElvaine, 2008.

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• One day at a time. You rise, you eat, you bathe, and you talk to the few people you can tolerate while feeling so wretched. Over time, it hurts a little less. Then a little less. And so on...Until one morning, you will awake and realize the pain is only a memory. It will always be with you, but it will eventually lack the power to cripple you.

  Sylvia Day

  Hurt, Morning, Pain

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• The longer a person has been dead the greater is the tradition... If Buddha is alive you can barely tolerate him... You cannot believe this man has known the ultimate because he looks just like you... Hungry he needs food, sleepy he wants a bed, ill, he has to rest - just like you... That is why Jesus is worshiped now and yet he was crucified when he was alive. Alive, you crucify him; dead, you worship him.

  Rajneesh

  Jesus, Believe, Men

  "When the Shoe Fits: Talks on the Stories of the Taoist Mystic Chuang Tzu". Book by Rajneesh, 1976.

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• A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons.

  Rick Steves

  Marijuana, Choices, Alternatives

  Rick Steves (2015). “Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door 2016: The Travel Skills Handbook”, p.973, Avalon Travel

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• The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Eye, Winning, Way

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• Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

  William Arthur Ward

  Adversity, Humanity, Affliction

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• Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Forgiving, Merit, Virtue

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• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Motivational, Friendship

  "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

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• Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is.

  Garrison Keillor

  People, Eccentric, Mouths

  "A Prairie Home Companion". Radio show, December 13, 1997.

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• Society would not tolerate legislation declaring that the theory that the sun circles the earth be given equal time with the theory of a heliocentric solar system; it should not pay attention to the equally preposterous notions of scientific creationism

  Robert E. Ornstein

  Circles, Religion, Attention

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• I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Pain, Hate, Good Things

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.265, Pan Macmillan

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• The real secret to freedom seems to lie in the ability to deal with ambiguity, the capacity to tolerate noise and yet hear within its wild randomizing abandon the possibilities of innovation and transformations.

  William Thompson

  Real, Lying, Adventure

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• I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Liberty, Opinion, Latitude

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”

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• People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Clever, People, Contradiction

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• I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.

  Helen Thomas

  Thinking, Two, People

  Phone interview on "The Majority Report" with Sam Seder, April 2, 2004.

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• So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, Patriotic

  Announces the Death of Osama Bin Laden, delivered 1 May 2011

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• Regarding the mantra..."There is no overtraining" Just because you can handle large amounts of volume doesn't mean it's needed. That's the crux of the issue. Just because the body can tolerate something doesn't mean it's a necessity for progress. This is simply poor logic.

  Steve Shaw

  Workout, Mean, Issues

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• Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it

  Bono

  Christian, Jesus, Doe

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• America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser, this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Army

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• An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

  John Gardner

  Philosophy, Humble, Water

  "Excellence, Can We be Equal and Excellent Too?" by John W. Gardner, (p. 86), 1961.

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