Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live

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• Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.

  

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• So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

  

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• I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions.

  

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• The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

  

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• You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

  

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• Archery requires very sensitive muscles.

  

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• I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.

  

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• Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.

  

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• The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

  

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• I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.

  

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• Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.

  

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• My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.

  

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• I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.

  

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• We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.

  

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• I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.

  

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• I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.

  

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• Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there's gonna come a time that you're gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

  

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• If your body is damaged, wounded, it can be fixed, but if inside, mentally, you are wounded you cannot fix it, it's hard.

  

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• Just do some kind of workout. Doesn't matter if it's going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming - you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

  

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• Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.

  

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• Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

  

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• Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Important
  • Live
  • Science