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Quote by Leo Tolstoy
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. – Leo Tolstoy

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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. – Leo Tolstoy

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All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. – Leo Tolstoy

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Love
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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. – Leo Tolstoy

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Happiness
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When I die I shall be content to vanish into nothingness…. No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever…. I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it. – H.L. Mencken

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The light of her earthly existence is now extinguished forever. – Elizabeth J. Eames, “An Autumn Reverie,” October 1840

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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. – W. H. Auden

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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. – Walter Benjamin

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A paradigm shift, where, in addition to physical inputs for farming, a focused emphasis placed on knowledge inputs can be a promising way forward. This knowledge-based approach will bring immense returns, particularly in rain fed and dry land farming areas. – Pratibha Patil

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