Leo Tolstoy Quotes
All state obligations are against the conscience of a Christian: the oath of allegiance, taxes, law proceedings and military service.
Quotes to Explore
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
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Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
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I'm not a big fan of watching my matches.
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I am thankful to whatever I have got in my life, but one thing which is always at the back of my mind is my dance academy. I would love to see my dance academy growing.
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I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.
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My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.
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Thinking of possibilities is like driving a car on a freeway. You have an open road that stretches endlessly before you where your thoughts are not shackled. But when we say 'impossible,' we have already reached a dead-end in our minds. So dwell on possibilities to open up your horizon.
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I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.
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Today there are two points where a car manufacturer has interaction with you as an owner of a car. One, you buy the car. Two, you go to the car shop to repair the car.
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Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.
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Paris is mostly retired people - I love it, and it's a beautiful city, but it's quite slow.
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I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.
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Listening back to your speaking voice for the first time, unless you're James Earl Jones, it's a quite distressing process for most people.
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If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.
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Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters, and that the corporate dimension is a distraction or diversion. Of course Christianity is deeply personal for every single Christian; nobody gets lost in the kingdom of God. But you can't play that off against the corporate dimension.
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The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.
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We ask them to remove the missiles deployed against Taiwan, give up their military threat, and instead let us together open the door to cross-Strait peaceful and stable dialogue and negotiations.
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All state obligations are against the conscience of a Christian: the oath of allegiance, taxes, law proceedings and military service.
