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tolerate
«The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.»
Author: Douglas Engelbart
(Inventor)
| About:
Maturity
| Keywords:
directly, directly proportional, embarrassment, embarrassments, mature, proportional, rate, The Embarrassment, tolerate
«The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group,»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Democracy,
Government,
Liberty
| Keywords:
democratic, democratic government, democratic state, essence, fascism, group, groups of people, group of people, individual liberty, ownership, private, private ownership, strong point, tolerate
«The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.»
Author: Henri Nouwen
| About:
Friends,
Friendship
| Keywords:
bereavement, by the hour, cares, confusion, curing, despair, Despaired, despairs, Friend, grief, healing, heal all, hour, In a, in a moment, knowing, moment, silent, stay, stay on, that is, tolerate, tolerating
«Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
analysis, appreciate, banishes, banishing, conducive, fertile, First to, must not, The Art of Reasoning, tolerate, tolerating
«The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
insecurities, insecurity, psychic, secure, tolerate
«There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing»
«This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
extermination, exterminations, horrible, massacre, organizing, spark, tolerate, utterly
«The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Opinions
| Keywords:
aberration, aberrations, amusements, hunting, mistreatment, public opinion, tolerate
«The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.»
«There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
dullness, incessant, incredible, influx, novelty, tolerate