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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

Other quotes by Leo Tolstoy

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised. – Leo Tolstoy

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Hypocrisy
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Leo Tolstoy
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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life. – Leo Tolstoy

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Life
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Leo Tolstoy
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Death
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Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life. – Edvard Munch

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Death

Dont be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. – Bertolt Brecht

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Death

Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death. – Blaise Pascal

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Death

In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations – ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies – were not only accepted but occasionally applauded. – Tom Robbins

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Death

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath. – Wilt Chamberlain

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Learning how to learn is lifes most important skill. – Tony Buzan

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The amazing thing is that Im sane. Im not bitter. Im not drugged out. Im not broke. Im still married to the same guy. My children dont hate me. – Brenda Lee

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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there. – Charles Kettering

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