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"The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything."

"Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic."

"Everyone has a right to love the land that gave them the things they need to live. It gives them beauty to look at, and food to eat, and neighbors to bicker with and then eventually to marry. But I think... that your own devotion to your familiar homeland should inspire you to allow other people to embrace their homelands as beautiful too."

"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."

"Ever since the Enlightenment era in the 17th and 18th Centuries - which, among other things, gave birth to the U.S. Constitution and the de facto motto E Pluribus Unum (out of the many, one) - interfaith tolerance has been sown into the fabric of Western society. The rules of one religion are not made into law for all citizens because of a simple social agreement. For you to believe what you want, you must allow me to do the same, even if we disagree."

"Tolerance is not infinite patience, but slain patience; patience that has lost its hope and love and has thrown in the towel."
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"Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies."

"They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves."

"People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth."

"Don't go into the business of pleasing people. You can't please everybody. Simply do your best at what you do."
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