All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.
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A modern branch of mathematics, having achieved the art of dealing with the infinitely small, can now yield solutions in other more complex problems of motion, which used to appear insoluble. This modern branch of mathematics, unknown to the ancients, whe.Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.
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If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food,because ... its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling killing.
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Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.
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Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of welfare.
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