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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

How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it. – Leo Tolstoy

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God
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. – Leo Tolstoy

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Truth
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He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. – Leo Tolstoy

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Being in Love
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Other Quotes from
Death
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A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Death

Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death. – Desmond Morris

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Death

Once you start doing only what youve already proven you can do, youre on the road to death. – Jerry Seinfeld

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Death

Im not afraid of death, but Im in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. – Stephen Hawking

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Death

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Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. – Quoted in The Whole Earth Catalog, 1980 edition, originally created by Stewart B

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Libraries

Funny that a pair of really nice shoes make us feel good in our heads — at the extreme opposite end of our bodies. – Levende Waters

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Clothing

Nor must you find fault with me if I often give you what I have borrowed from my various reading, in the very words of the authors themselves. – Macrobius, translated from Latin

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Quotations

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. – Ambrose Bierce

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