"Tolerance is the only real test of civilization."

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Source : Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

Arthur Helps

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“Good strong banks are essential for every family and for every business in the country and extraordinary times call for the bold and far-reaching solutions that the Treasury has announced today.”

Source : Gordon Brown during Press Conference with the Chancellor of the exchequer, webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk. October 8, 2008.
“I thought I was growing wingsâ€” it was a cocoon. I thought, now is the time to step into the fireâ€” it was deep water. Eschatology is a word I learned as a child: the study of Last Things; facing my mirrorâ€”no longer young, the newsâ€”always of death, the dogsâ€”rising from sleep and clamoring and howling, howling.... ("Seeing For a Moment")”
“The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“No [movie is really worth watching] which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength, or nobility of character. There are enough [great movies] to occupy us during all our short and busy years. If we are wise, we will resolutely avoid all but the richest and the best.”
“If you can’t be good, be colorful.”
“With strength to lift mountains and spirit to take on the World”
“Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.”
“Death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down.”

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