"There is also a reasonable tolerance: reason tolerates the reasonable. It is, however, almost tautological to call this 'tolerance' any longer, as it becomes a matter of course."

-- Friedrich Durrenmatt

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“Jesus is never upset at sinners; he is only upset with people who do not think they are sinners.”
“Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.”
“Let the influx of money be ever so great, if there be no confidence, property will sink in value... The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.”
“I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one. And now they seem sort of meaningful and real.”

Source : "Watching the Golden Globes". www.slate.com. January 16, 2007.
“Guard your tongue from praise as you have guarded it from blame.”
“No one has more time than you have. It is the discipline and stewardship of your time that is important. The management of time is the management of self; therefore if you manage time with God, he will begin to manage you.”

Source : Jill Briscoe (1989). “Before You Say Amen”, Victor Books
“When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we not also clear the mind - at least that part of it that we can reach - of the ruins of past thinking, before building our palace of dharma which will one day reach the sky.”
“The bad thing about falling into pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've got nothing left to protect, and so have no reason not to be honest”

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