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Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Leo Tolstoy quote: "The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs...."

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

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Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less. H. L. Mencken
Those sages of the ancient world, unbound by dogma of any kind, thought as we do in terms of physics, or rather, physiology, as applied to the whole universe: they envisaged the end of man and the dying out of this sphere. Marguerite Yourcenar
Muqtada al Sadr quote: "When I die, don't let my death stop the resistance."
When I die, don't let my death stop the resistance. Muqtada al Sadr
That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a valor-ruined man. Herman Melville
Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level. Carey Mulligan
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom we love that the guilt with which we are born becomes intolerable, and since all those whom we love intensely and continuously grow part of us, and since we hate ourselves in them, so we torture ourselves and them together. Cyril Connolly
Paul Bourget quote: "At certain moments, words are nothing; it is thetone in which..."
At certain moments, words are nothing; it is thetone in which they are uttered. Paul Bourget
Mitch Albom quote: "A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying."
A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. Mitch Albom
Oksana Baiul quote: "No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach..."
No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody. Oksana Baiul
Henry Fielding quote: "Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done..."
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil. Henry Fielding
I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results. LL Cool J
Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can’t make up for the lack of it. ~Aunt Josephine to Anne in Anne Of Green Gables L. M. Montgomery
I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad? Terry Prachett
There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of kings. It is better not to be different from one's fellows. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live, undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. Oscar Wilde
When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced. Stanislav Grof