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Yeah, I hear the difference. But, to give you an example of why I think tolerance is all right by me: I just spent a year living in Jerusalem, where-- I promise you-- there will never be a mutual admiration society between the Jews and the Arabs, or between the Ultra-Orthodox Jews and the Secular Jews. Toleration exists (for the most part), and let me tell you guys, it was mighty fine.
Toleration may not win any awards for niceness or pleasantness, but in comparison to open hostility, it is pretty damn good. I will totally take it if I can get it.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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