Kofi Annan  - Quotes

 Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated. 

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Bill Clinton  - Quotes

 from Bill Clinton speech-

People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power...
 

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Jasper Fforde  - Quotes

 If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong. 

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Bill Clinton  - Quotes

 He [Walter Cronkite] was also a profoundly good man. I don't think we should lose sight of that. All those professional gifts emanated from a very good core and that's something that's beyond training. It's who he was. 

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Eddie Izzard  - Quotes

 So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a

relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little na
 

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Sarah Dessen  - Quotes

 This thought was interuppted, suddenly, by a crash from the front enterance. We all looked over just in time to see Adam bending back from the glass, rubbing his arm.

 

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Karl Popper  - Quotes

 Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society... then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them... We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. 

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Peter Cameron  - Quotes

 I don't know why I felt so closed and bitter and threatened by the things I did not like. 

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Christopher Paolini  - Quotes

 They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing their identities to merge once again. Their greatest comfort was a simple one: they were no longer alone. To know that you were with the one who cared for you, and who understood every fiber of your being, and who would not abandon you even in the most desperate of circumstances, that was the most precious relationship a person could have, and they both cherished it.  

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Nick Flynn  - Quotes

 My statement to Harris that his book contains much to admire is specious hyperbole. In The End of Faith, Harris rails against religious fundamentalism, which seems obvious, as well as against religious moderates, which seems intolerant. 

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Jodi Picoult  - Quotes

 I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his hand on your heart. 

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