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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.


Sydney J. Harris

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QUINN STILLETTO The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
ASHLEY MONTAGU Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
EMMET FOX Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
DR. EMMIT FOX Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting
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PHIL LOUT I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain about what you have than it is to ...
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CHINESE PROVERBS Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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WILLIAM OSLER Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
MAHATMA GANDHI Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
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CHRIS SANTELLA Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.
BALTHASAR GRACIAN Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it
BALTASAR GRACIAN The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
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AMBROSE BIERCE Intelligence is the most limited natural resource soon to be extinct due to intolerance.
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ALGERNON SYDNEY God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate...
ALGERNON SYDNEY Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must ...
ALGERNON SYDNEY All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.
ALGERNON SYDNEY A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... th...
ALGERNON SYDNEY In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology...
SYDNEY BRENNER I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
SYDNEY SMITH People ask me over and over how is it that I work with stars. How do you work with Barbra Streisand,...
SYDNEY POLLACK Good actors aren't enough. You need charisma. Can you imagine 'Casablanca' without Bogar...
SYDNEY POLLACK When you first start out, you want to be Fellini, or you want to be Bergman.
SYDNEY POLLACK It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.
SYDNEY SMITH That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur.
SYDNEY SMITH I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of reform, rem...
SYDNEY SMITH Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that...
SYDNEY SMITH American movies are the most popular movies everywhere, and it is true that the quality is far from ...
SYDNEY POLLACK The lens is the actor's best critic... showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can ...
SYDNEY GREENSTREET There's nothing wrong with crooks having lawyers. Everyone is entitled to a lawyer.
SYDNEY POLLACK Depicting a terrorist act in a film isn't going to incite terrorism.
SYDNEY POLLACK It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
SYDNEY SMITH Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature inten...
SYDNEY SMITH