Leo Tolstoy Quotes
Every one who has a heart and eyes sees that you, working men, are obliged to pass your lives in want and in hard labor, which is useless to you, while other men, who do not work, enjoy the fruits of your labor-that you are the slaves of these men, and that this ought not to exist.
Quotes to Explore
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
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I want to help people; that's it.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
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I'm influenced by all types of music.
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If there's a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it's not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there's a house rumor, they'll find out it's not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.
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Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
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In Paris we have bistros, then we have fine dining. In London, you have a very contemporary scene with mixed influences.
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I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world.
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I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
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My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.
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Begone apprentice, I left my gong and stick At the sacred grotto Of Mother Idoto For you and your ilk For generations of town criers.
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Every one who has a heart and eyes sees that you, working men, are obliged to pass your lives in want and in hard labor, which is useless to you, while other men, who do not work, enjoy the fruits of your labor-that you are the slaves of these men, and that this ought not to exist.
