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Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people, but in all living things.

Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi or Tolstoy : Russian novelist & philosopher
Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
Source: A Calendar of Wisdom
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In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming a divine right for the rulers: the Tsars, Sultans, Rajahs, Shahs and other heads of states.

Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi or Tolstoy : Russian novelist & philosopher
Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
Source: A Letter to a Hindu
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The first revolution of the Western Hemisphere was that of the slaves of Saint Domingue (present-day Haiti) at the end of the eighteenth century, followed more than a century later by the Mexican revolution of the decade of 1910, and fifty years after that by the Cuban revolution. And if I do not cite here either the famous "American revolution" or that of the Spanish colonies that soon followed, it is because those only transferred the power of decision from the metropolis to the colonists so that they could go on doing the same thing, pursue the same project with even greater brutality, but without having to share the profits with the "mother country."

Samir Amin
Source: Imperialism And Globalization
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Islam united all heresies persecuted in Byzantine Empire and synthesised them well into a conseffion that later became a symbol of Arab self-affirmation.

Lev Gumilev
Source: Ethnogenesis and the Biosphere
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