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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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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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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. – Leo Tolstoy

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Death
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For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. – John Steinbeck

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Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor. – Homer, Iliad

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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. – Thomas Mann

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Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul. – Charles Baudelaire

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Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved? – Jeff Goodell

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There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. – Publius Terentius Afer

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Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction. – Bob Marley

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