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I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.

Leo Tolstoy
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...the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.

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Life did not stop, and one had to live.

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The one who is happy, that's the one who is right.

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God is the same everywhere.

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