Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
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My mom's whole life had been my gymnastics. We struggled to connect when I stopped.
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It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.
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We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.
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I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
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Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.
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We live because of the dreams.
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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
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I find too often in the wrestling business, you just wrestle, get to the hotel, make your money. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself to enjoy my life and not just rush through.
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I have got a fantastic life and I just like to get on with it, and I am quite a private person.
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Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of life for so many people. The least we can do is protect it, and the way of life it provides for so many.
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I do believe that you have to bring some degree of truth from yourself to the role Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in and I'll admit it here, I have shaved a grown man before. I have done it. And it wasn't Tim Burton.
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From the very beginning, Europe has been not only a success story but also a story of success achieved by learning.
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Why shouldn't future generations and young Americans have the choice to earn a higher rate of return? Why shouldn't they be able to own their own Social Security so that Congress can't spend it on other things?
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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Indeed, in a world of the BlackBerry, remote access and Wi-Fi hotspots on every street corner, it feels particularly outdated that much of our working culture is still dominated by the need to be at our desk for long hours of the day.
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There is only one enduring happiness in life—to live for others.
