Leo Tolstoy Quotes
History is the life of nations and of humanity. To seize and put into words, to describe directly the life of humanity or even of a single nation, appears impossible.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.
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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I'm the best Twitterer.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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Dance is something I really enjoy; it gives me a different kind of happiness, something more spiritual. Plus it's good exercise; I'm happy doing it, and it all shows!
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I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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People love me everywhere I go.
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From a Dataist perspective, we may interpret the entire human species as a single data-processing system, with individual humans serving as its chips. If so, we can also understand the whole of history as a process of improving the efficiency of this system through four basic methods:
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History is the life of nations and of humanity. To seize and put into words, to describe directly the life of humanity or even of a single nation, appears impossible.
