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  • Anyhow they could not have been its causes, and the whole story, so thoroughly opposed to the unusual tolerancy and benevolence of Smith's character, merits no attention.

    Life of Adam Smith Rae, John, 1845-1915 1895

  • This tolerancy in fact reposes on the very idea which we ought to make to ourselves of the poet, and only on this idea; what in his case is legitimate freedom, is only a license worthy of contempt as soon as it no longer takes its source in the ideal, in those high and noble inspirations which make the poet.

    The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

  • This tolerancy in fact reposes on the very idea which we ought to make to ourselves of the poet, and only on this idea; what in his case is legitimate freedom, is only a license worthy of contempt as soon as it no longer takes its source in the ideal, in those high and noble inspirations which make the poet.

    Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

  • I once remembered that an Indonesian muslim told me that respect and high tolerancy which are important factors when you are in a multi racial society.

    Life's Happenings 2010

  • Back in the early to mid 1900’s this group had a similar tolerancy level of other people who opposed their ideals (ZERO TOLERANCY).

    Think Progress » Iraq: The War To Start All Wars 2005

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