"This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism."

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Source : FaceBook post by Susan Jacoby from Aug 27, 2013

Susan Jacoby

#Tolerance Quotes #Roles Quotes #Levels Quotes

“I don't have a computer - I don't like to get into it that much 'cause it can screw with your head a little”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“All you have really to do is to keep your back as straight as you can; and not think about what is upon it. The real and essential meaning of "virtue" is that straightness of back.”
“There are two kinds of books in the world--the boring kind they make you read in school and the interesting kind that they won't let you read in school because then they would have to talk about real stuff like sex and divorce and is there a God and if there isn't then what happens when you die, and how come the history books have so many lies in them.”
“The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.”
“Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.”

Source : SAUL BELLOW (1971). “MR. SAMMLER'S PLANET”
“What ever your doing right now, whatever your thinking, or worrying about. stop. take a huge breathe in, and just enjoy being alive.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 17, 2014
“Of course, no-one thinks the EU is perfect. In recent years, the pace of social reform has slowed. But staying in offers the chance to rebuild a vision of Europe for workers, regardless of the passport they hold.”
“He that would speak Divine things in a language which living men of to-day can comprehend, must keep up with the researches and discoveries of men who study nature, and put her words into the speech of the present.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 414, 1895.

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