Category Archives: TOLERANCE

Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside

― John F. Kennedy

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“The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us against the ice, the tiger and the bear. The hand that hefted the axe, out of some old blind allegiance to the past fondles the machine gun as lovingly. It is a habit man will have to break to survive, but the roots go very deep.”

― Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature

We build too many walls and not enough bridges. Isaac Newton

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Learn to be The unmingling River, flowing through the sea Of this World’s brackish waters. Thou too, keep Thy course unbroken ‘mid the briny deep Of all its lures, its lusts and vanity.

"Moral Emblems, with Aphorisms, Adages, and Proverbs, of All Ages and Nations"

foto – twin bridges over the kalang river in nsw