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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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If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. – Leo Tolstoy

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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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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men. – Quintus Ennius

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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. – Samuel Johnson

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The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group – to say nothing of gay marriage – are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life. – Jeffrey Kluger

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