Sidney Hook Quotes
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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
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Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.
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'The ruckus' is different experiences you go through throughout your life which builds your ruckus points up - your tolerance. You've got to have a high tolerance for dealing with stuff all the time.
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The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.
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The fabric of our Constitution and our civilisational culture is based on tolerance.
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I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits.
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America needs to be a place where all of us can feel a part of the American dream. But it will not happen by dividing us into racial groups. It will not happen by trying to turn the poor against the rich. It will not happen by asking Americans to accept what is immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.
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Fanaticism and extremism cannot grow on an earth whose soil is embedded in the spirit of tolerance, moderation, and balance. Good governance can eliminate injustice, destitution and poverty.' Remarks at a Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Summit 5 December 2005.
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We wish to recall here the spirit of tolerance shown by Our Lord Jesus Christ when He gave forgiveness to all including those that crucified Him.
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'Above all there is our fixed joint determination to build a strong and united Fiji, rich in diversity and pampered with tolerance, goodwill and understanding.' (Attributed to Mara by his successor as President, Ratu Josefa Iloilo, 10 October 2005).
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Along with this element of universal tolerance, I should couple our Republican system of Government, which gives to every man a share and a responsibility in the direction of public affairs. And third, I should place our system of universal free education.
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We must have zero tolerance for sexual harassment, even if the perpetrator is somebody we like and admire.
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You don't see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can't play the game. I can't - my tolerance - I know I'm getting old; I'll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I'm getting old? 'Cause my tolerance level is low.
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I like to think that when Medawar and his colleagues showed that immunological tolerance could be produced experimentally, the new immunology was born.
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Our schools must be places where all are respected and the values of tolerance and peacemaking are taught and nurtured.
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I've always been a bit of a daredevil, even as a little girl with a pretty high pain tolerance and things like that.
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There are hardliners in the PQ, the true believers, the ones who had (former PQ leader Bernard) Landry's head and who tried to get the head of (incoming) governor-general Michaelle Jean. They are intoleran.
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I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's funny.
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Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book.
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Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.
