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Bigot, one who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.


Ambrose Bierce

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Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
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CARL LEWIS He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave.
SIR WILLIAM DRUMMOND (2) He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
SIR WILLIAM DRUMMOND He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
WILLIAM DRUMMOND He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave
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GARY F EVANS... Bigot-A person who wins an argument with a liberal
RUSH LIMBAUGH Do not become so attached to any one belief than you cannot see past it to another possibility.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI I don't have the body for this," I quipped, lifting my chin to a voluptous woman nearby who shook he...
BECCA FITZPATRICK All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point
VIRGINIA WOOLF [t]hose...who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin, are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.
CARDINAL RATZINGER Entertaining a notion, like entertaining a baby cousin or entertaining a pack of hyenas, is a danger...
LEMONY SNICKET It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone...
CRISS JAMI That is not an option I'm prepared to entertain, ... There is no place for an arbitration panel.
DORIS MEISSNER You want to talk about a matter of inches. No one was more distraught than Ambrose after that game.
CHARLIE WEIS It's not a bad thing to be able to do many things onstage. If you're an entertainer, you sho...
CAROL BURNETT No one worth calling a man allows his moods to change his convictions; but it is by moods that we un...
G.K. CHESTERTON Someone once told me that if you respect a person, listen to their opinion. And if you do not respec...
MAISIE WILLIAMS You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I do not like the fashion of your garments.
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REGGIE WHITE If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants.
ALBERT EINSTEIN HUNGER IS A HOPELESSNESS AND A CURSE NOT TO ENTERTAIN ANY ONE WITH.
MUCOR DEDALIV RALUI I'm not going to do opinion. That's not who I am.
CAMPBELL BROWN But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with...
BIBLE You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.
NADIA BJORLIN If you want to be successful, begin to work zealously and persistently
SUNDAY ADELAJA It's an opinion poll. Not much we can do about people's opinion.
ERIC STONE A decent man who doesn't consider himself a bigot can indeed be trained to behave like a bigot i...
ADAM-TROY CASTRO We're here to entertain, we're not here to change the opinion of the world; we're not here to teach ...
DOUGLAS STARK I will do my best to entertain. That's what I am: an entertainer.
BRITT EKLAND It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insu...
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MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is en...
HARLAN ELLISON One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one
OSCAR WILDE It is not nonsense and nobody asked you; you aren’t competent to have an opinion about it.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There's no one on earth who can give you an informed opinion, ... They have to get flashlights to cr...
BRIAN TAYLOR In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor...
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WILLIAM DRUMMOND It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.
DAVID H. SOUTER It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I me...
LIAM GALLAGHER It's impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an...
RUSH LIMBAUGH He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
ANDREW CARNEGIE I could never even entertain the notion that it's an option, to not be an artist.
DUSTIN YELLIN I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My hones...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My hon...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that wh...
EPICTETUS It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that wh...
EPICTETUS A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.
THOMAS EHRLICH It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, s...
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JOHN LASSETER You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can't be entertained - or people who are a...
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Ambrose: I'...
AMY HARMON A hundred things to do, but only one thing to be," he said, obstinately. "But perhaps I don't feel m...
DORIS LESSING This is one place an opinion has to be made: that this body is a betrayal.
DADA BHAGWAN They were not her children, she had no idea who they were, but they had attached to her, and she had...
BIANCA WALKER I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that I'll have to revise my opinion. Most o...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a s...
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BLANCHE KNOTT Those who are attached to the True One have their filth washed away.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
ANDRE MAUROIS Respect has nothing to do with who is right and who is wrong. It has to do with allowing space for s...
JACKIE VIRAMONTEZ Creepy is being attached to an outcome. If you approach someone with the goal of sex, and hten find ...
ALLISON MOON He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.
KLOPSTOCK He who has an opinion of his own, but depends on the opinion and tastes of others is a slave.
KLOPSTOCK Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
SIR FRANCIS BACON I'm not a bigot. I'm not a homophobe. I'm a conscientious parent.
LAURIE TAYLOR Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one.
UNKNOWN The more facts one introduces, the more truth one shows, the more determined the bigot is to cling t...
JUDITH TARR The reason people will attack you never really has anything to do with you. It stems from their OWN ...
SANDRA M. MICHELLE I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life ...
ALICIA KEYS Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT A fair trial requires defense counsel who can defend their clients zealously, without fear of repris...
RICHARD DICKER If you have an opportunity to reach people on a broad scale, it's not enough to just entertain p...
JACK REYNOR I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not.
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KEVIN GARNETT I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stere...
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SHANNON REMPEL Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet esca...
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THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected I believe to One does feel.
RONALD KNOX When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.
RONALD KNOX When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected ''I believe'' to ''One does feel.''
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SAINT TERESA OF AVILA I find that most people that zealously defend Darwin have not actually read Darwin; definitely not D...
A.E. SAMAAN Perfection is an opinion not a fact.
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AMBROSE BIERCE Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
AMBROSE BIERCE Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
AMBROSE BIERCE Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities ...
AMBROSE BIERCE Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the...
AMBROSE BIERCE Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
AMBROSE BIERCE Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction ...
AMBROSE BIERCE The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
AMBROSE BIERCE TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeab...
AMBROSE BIERCE Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
AMBROSE BIERCE Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
AMBROSE BIERCE Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
AMBROSE BIERCE Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
AMBROSE BIERCE Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and wa...
AMBROSE BIERCE The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
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