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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things. – E. M. Forster

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I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one – Mahatma Gandhi

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Pass no rash condemnation on other peoples words or actions. – Thomas Kempis

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Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness. – Sir James Goldsmith

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Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love. – Frank Moore Colby

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