New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
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BEVERLY SILLS Everyone gets scared at times. It's only the fools who won't admit it.
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ARTURO BONIELLO No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which docs not take a...
JEAN DE LA BRUYèRE That which you tolerate, you also encourage.
CLYDE LEE DENNIS Florida can expect that research institutions will gladly take them up on their offer to take some s...
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BILL HAMILTON It's useful. It brings this whole issue more into the public awareness. It will perhaps encourage pe...
ED LYNCH It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'...
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EVGENY MOROZOV In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
DORIS LESSING In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
DORIS LESSING In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
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DAVID E. KELLEY What I'm going to try to do is to encourage people to take advantage a little bit more of the daylig...
DEREK DUNCAN We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN We really take a stance of educating, trying to help managers understand. It does give them the abil...
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SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools
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JAMES THURBER I am against bigness and greatness in all their forms, and with the invisible molecular moral forces...
WILLIAM JAMES The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time an...
WILLIAM JAMES On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending,
And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb...
JAMES BEATTIE Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
JAMES BEATTIE Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional ...
JAMES SUROWIECKI