"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."
-Leo Tolstoy
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"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
-Leo Tolstoy
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"War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it."
-Leo Tolstoy
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"War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves."
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"In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful."
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"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth."
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"I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience."
-Tyrone Power
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"So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required."
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"If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything."
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"Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required."
-Yiannis Stournaras
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"As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience."
-Ridley Pearson
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"Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked."
-Abdus Salam
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