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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."
"A religious individual may most gloriously carry out his or her own rituals, as a part of his or her cultural identity, but the moment, that person starts to build a wall of separation between the self and the rest of humanity, coaxed by the textual commands of a scripture, the healthy religiousness turns into dangerous fundamentalism, which is a threat to both the self and the society."
"Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private."
"If your religion requires, as an article of faith, to hate people of other religions and faiths, you and your ism are screwed up, mate."
"The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence."
"The best way to avoid a catastrophic conflict of beliefs is to be more compassionate about other people's beliefs as long as they do not advocate for prejudices, bigotry and sectarianism."
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"Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man."
"Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone."
"Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!"
"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."
"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."
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