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  • ROBERTS: But again, Olympia Snowe says you've moved too far to the right, you're not tolerative of moderates, even Lindsey Graham said the same thing, so it's not just about Arlen Specter.

    CNN Transcript May 4, 2009 2009

  • I suppose it is that I have been up against so many different kinds of fears, or, rather, of things which for most people have terrors of their own, that I have come to have a contempt -- not an active contempt, you know, but a tolerative contempt -- for the whole family of them.

    The Lady of the Shroud Bram Stoker 1879

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