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Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: i would no more tolerate the teaching of calvinism to children if i had power to persecute it than the british raj tolerated suttee in india. every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Dogmatic Toleration Is Nonsense: I Would No

George Bernard Shaw
Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: i would no more tolerate the teaching of calvinism to children if i had power to persecute it than the british raj tolerated suttee in india. every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.
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