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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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• In the zero-sum budget game, every dollar spent on this problem [illegal immigration] must be taken from somewhere else....No, we should not tolerate people immigrating illegally. But we need to treat this issue honestly and fairly.

  Leon Panetta

  Zero, Taken, Somewhere Else

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• People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Clever, People, Contradiction

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• God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

  John Calvin

  Prayer, Ignorance, Would Be

  John Calvin “Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Call saw that everyone was looking at him, the hands and cowboys and townspeople alike. The anger had drained out of him, leaving him feeling tired. He didn't remember the fight, particularly, but people were looking at him as if they were stunned. He felt he should make some explanation, though it seemed to him a simple situation. "I hate a man that talks rude," he said. "I won't tolerate it.

  Larry McMurtry

  Hate, Tired, Fighting

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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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• 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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• 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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• Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!

  Elbert Hubbard

  Moving, Men, Player

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• People tolerate those they fear further than those they love.

  E. W. Howe

  People, Anxiety

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• The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Heart, Men, Doe

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• There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.

  Agnes Repplier

  Law, Optimism, Triumph

  Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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• I do not tolerate a world emptied of you. I have tried. For a year I have called every black tree Marya Morevna; I have looked for your face in the patterns of the ice. In the dark, I have pored over the loss of you like pale gold.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Loss, Dark, Years

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.254, Macmillan

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• Structural dissatisfaction: Returning to circumstances that once pleased you, after having experienced a more thrilling or opulent way of life, and finding that you can no longer tolerate them.

  Jennifer Egan

  Way, Circumstances, Findings

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.61, Anchor

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• His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be gone, like when an organ is removed and the body's fluids flow into the space it leaves. Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.

  Veronica Roth

  Space, Long, Gone

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Divergent Collector's Edition”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains.

  Imre Kertész

  Country, Lying, Deception

  "Liquidation" by Imre Kertész, www.nytimes.com. December 19, 2004.

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• At the beginning of human history, as we struggled to light fires and to chisel fallen trees into rudimentary canoes, who could have predicted that long after we had managed to send men to the moon and areoplanes to Australasia, we would still have such trouble knowing how to tolerate ourselves, forgive our loved ones, and apologise for our tantrums?

  Alain de Botton

  Moon, Men, Light

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• I didn't expect it was going to be easy. But hard work is a lot easier to tolerate when it's something you want to do instead of something you have no choice about.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Hard Work, Choices, Want

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.455, St. Martin's Press

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• I hate rude behavior in a man,' he explained in his quiet, unassuming drawl. 'I won't tolerate it.' He politely tipped his hat, and rode away.

  Larry McMurtry

  Hate, Men, Rude

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• the only way to tolerate the thought of her mother sleeping with that man was to get drunk-very drunk.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Mother, Sleep, Men

  Cecily Von Ziegesar (2003). “Gossip Girl”, p.5, A&C Black

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• Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Appreciation, Attitude, Tolerance

  "It will take more than tolerance to protect human rights" by Daniel Barenboim, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2016.

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• Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Ignorance, Responsibility, Views

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• Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.

  Veronica Roth

  Long, Emptiness, Humans

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Divergent Collector's Edition”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heavenly self. When you change your baby's diaper, forgive your boss's temper, tolerate your spouse's moodiness, you display traces of saintliness.

  Max Lucado

  Baby, Self, Boss

  Max Lucado (2011). “Live Loved: Experiencing God's Presence in Everyday Life”, p.94, Thomas Nelson Inc

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