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This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.
– Leo Tolstoy

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  1. Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentiment.Sebastopol by Leo Tolstoy – Leo Tolstoy
  2. The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind. – Leo Tolstoy
  3. A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul. – Leo Tolstoy
  4. Our response to the external conditions of our lives can be greatly altered by our perceptions of those conditions. – Kitt Weagant
  5. Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present. – Leo Tolstoy
  6. A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking. – Michael R LeGault
  7. If every Christian will have an active civil position, he can become a reformer in his country – Sunday Adelaja
  8. Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor. – Derrick A Bell
  9. Being a pioneering reformer is all fine and good, but it does leave one terribly in want of agood party! – Jenny Holiday
  10. The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience. – Leo Tolstoy
  11. He thought of his wife, of his son, of his youth. He thought of life. He thought of death and then he thought of life again. – Teodor Flonta
  12. Neither can you explain yourself to me. Nor can I explain myself to you. You have your sadness and I have mine. – Avijeet Das
  13. The task of the theologian is to explain everything through God, and to explain God as unexplainable. – Karl Rahner
  14. True life is lived when tiny changes occur. – Leo Tolstoy
  15. All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade. – Leo Tolstoy
  16. The true meaning of Christ’s teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions. – Leo Tolstoy
  17. To love life is to love God. – Leo Tolstoy
  18. If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence if from injury to animals. – Leo Tolstoy
  19. Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life. – Leo Tolstoy
  20. All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow. – Leo Tolstoy
  21. Upon examination of a people’s history, beware the story teller’s motives. – TF Hodge
  22. I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer. – Robert Lynn Asprin
  23. The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. – Raymond Holliwell
  24. I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we’re about to do something harmful, to someone else. – Margaret Atwood
  25. Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent. – Leo Tolstoy
  26. He remembered his mother’s love for him, and his family’s, and his friends’, and the enemy’s intention to kill him seemed impossible. – Leo Tolstoy
  27. I felt how much better and more dignified it was for me to show off the finer side of my soul than of my body. – Leo Tolstoy
  28. In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down. – Leo Tolstoy
  29. Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals. – Leo Tolstoy
  30. But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest. – Leo Tolstoy
  31. One must be cunning and wicked in this world. – Leo Tolstoy
  32. Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. – Leo Tolstoy
  33. The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him – six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs. – Leo Tolstoy
  34. I felt a wish never to leave that room – a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change. – Leo Tolstoy
  35. Everything depends on upbringing. – Leo Tolstoy
  36. She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was. – Leo Tolstoy
  37. Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There’s no girl who hasn’t gone through that. And it’s all so unimportant! – Leo Tolstoy
  38. It would be a sin to help you destroy yourself. – Leo Tolstoy
  39. Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be. – Leo Tolstoy
  40. If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content. – Leo Tolstoy

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