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"Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable."
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"The doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about reality are never presumed to be reality itself."

"Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private."

"We always vilify what we don't understand."

"In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die."
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"Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child."


"When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion."


"Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful."


"Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same."


"Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!"


"Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man."


"A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train."
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