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American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order…
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates…
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People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition;…
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The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother…
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We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless…
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In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
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EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows…
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To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed…
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It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless…
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have arisen to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for…
— Joyce Cary
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Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of…
— Walter Lippmann
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
— Edmund Burke
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Toleration is the best religion.
— Victor Hugo
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A tolerant society is one in which we criminalise an activity only as a last resort. Toleration is not just about allowing…
— John Gummer
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We need justice. We need toleration, honesty and moral courage. These are modern virtues without which we cannot hope to control the…
— Unknown Author
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In the eyes of history, religious toleration is the highest evidence of culture in a people. It was not until the Western…
— Marmaduke Pickthall
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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.
— Helen Keller
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The legal toleration of abortion or of euthanasia can in no way claim to be based on respect for the conscience of…
— Pope John Paul II
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In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have…
— Samuel Adams
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The lessons of religious toleration - a toleration which recognizes complete liberty of human thought, liberty of conscience - is one which,…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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