"Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate."

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Source : Jane Rule (2013). “Outlander: Short Stories and Essays”, p.236, Open Road Media

Jane Rule

#Tolerate Quotes #Humans Quotes

“The music has to come from bluegrass first. We always said back in the 70s that if you want to play newgrass you have to go through the school of bluegrass. You know, maybe Jack Black can make a movie now called School of Bluegrass . That would be cool.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sam Bush from May 23, 2012
“See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.”
“I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.”

Source : "Fictional character: Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. "Charlie" Madison". "The Americanization of Emily", 1964.
“Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.”

Source : Derek Bailey (1992). “Improvisation: its nature and practice in music”
“Read! Read! Read! And then read some more. When you find something that thrills you, take it apart paragraph by paragraph, line by line, word by word, to see what made it so wonderful. Then use those tricks next time you write.”
“Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people, and here we are still going strong after 40 years.”
“Women are so enigmatical â€“ some in everything â€“ all in matters of the heart. Don't they sometimes actually admire what is repulsive?...”
“Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.”

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