Leo Tolstoy Quotes
Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.
Quotes to Explore
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We must strive to become good ancestors.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Inspired by Alex Haley's 'Roots,' at the age of 11 I began a handwritten Middle Passage story called 'Lawdy, Lawdy, Make Us Free.' I was raised by civil rights activists with a very strong sense of racial history and consciousness.
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We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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As a brand, Ahla is one of Strauss-Elite's strongest. But we need to do a lot of marketing in order to regain market leadership. I have no doubt that we will do that, even if it takes time.
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There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.
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If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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Celebrities are just like us and like any of your friends. I love working with people.
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Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
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Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally it is right. But is it the right thing to do? No.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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It's like the American democratic system. When you vote, even if your candidate doesn't win, you accept that democracy was in action. When people participate in a Tezos network, they're accepting that the democratic vote of the other coin holders will govern the way the protocol moves.
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In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.
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This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle.
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Sometimes when I sit own to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for the elevator man and offer him money to come in and hear me.
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Fifth Harmony is an entity or identity outside all of us, and I don't think anybody felt individually represented by the sound - we didn't make it.
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Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.
