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Of what use is it to be tolerant of others if you are convinced that you are right and everyone who ...

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People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm n...

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[A man], who is in prosperity, while he sees that others have to contend with great wretchedness and...

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Immanuel KantFundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certa...

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Isaac AsimovAdding a Dimension: Seventeen Essays on the History of Science

...when we condescend, when we act consistently with a sense of the character of people in general w...

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The intellect, like all cultural values, has created an aristocracy based on the possession of ratio...

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