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  • Louisianans don't tolerate corruption; they demand it.

    -Anonymous
      In the NewYork Times, 5 Mar.

  • I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

    - Charles de Gaulle
      In the NewYork Times,12 May.

  • Nice philosophy May tolerate unlikelyarguments, But heaven admits no jest.

    -John Ford
      ' Tis Pity She's a Whore, act1, sc.1.

  • We are not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states, run by the strangest collection of misfits, looney tunes and squalid criminals since the advent of theThird Reich.

    - Ronald Wilson Reagan
      Speech after terrorist attacks by Shi'ite Muslims, Jul.

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