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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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
Jack Straw
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
Larry Niven
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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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.
Bear Grylls
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
Caity Lotz
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
Uma Thurman
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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
Carine Roitfeld
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I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions.
Rachel Roy
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
Omar Khayyam
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You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.
C. Everett Koop
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When a salesperson truly cares about you, trust forms, and you're more likely to buy, come back for repeat business, and refer new customers.
Adam Grant
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
Im Dong-Hyun
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There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
Wangari Maathai
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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.
Nadia Comaneci
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Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
Patrick Wang
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot
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I read about human psychology, practise balance, and accept that everything and everyone in our lives is transient. One day, people will criticise you, and the next day, they will praise you.
Nargis Fakhri
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I'm very comfortable in Argentina. I was raised there as a baby and stayed there until I was 11 years old, so the first decade of my life or my formative years were spent in Argentina. I stayed in tune with the food, music and language.
Viggo Mortensen
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I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.
Joel Edgerton
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Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full They belch us.
William Shakespeare
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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