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Tolstoy's Snowball
An entity that will survive longer if attacked than if left alone. Reference to Tolstoy's comment in War and Peace that a snowball will stick together as it melts on a stove when it would fall apart if left alone. Lesser known cousin of Chekov's Gun.
Bro #1: Bro, do you want to prank our rival team before the big game?
Bro #2: Nah bro, did you hear them arguing after that last practice? They're Tolstoy's Snowball - they'll play way worse if they don't have us to focus on.
Bro #1: That's wise bro.
Bro #2: Nah bro, did you hear them arguing after that last practice? They're Tolstoy's Snowball - they'll play way worse if they don't have us to focus on.
Bro #1: That's wise bro.
Tolstoy's Snowball by Crazy cow May 9, 2025
Leo Tolstoy
Commonly cited as one of the greatest authors ever, Tolstoy was a 19th century Russian most famous for his works "War and Peace."(1869) and "Anna Karenina." (1878) among many other great works of literature. He also wrote many profound essays, a lot of which revolved around Christianity.
Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" is most probably the best work of fiction to have ever been written. Through central characters Count Pierre Bezuhov and Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, the greatest spiritual and ethical questions of life are explored through embarkations on monumental journeys.
Leo Tolstoy by Gohn Gardenza October 7, 2008
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer widely regarded as among the greatest of novelists. His masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina represent in their scope, breadth and vivid depiction of 19th-century Russian life and attitudes, the peak of realist fiction. Tolstoy's further talents as essayist, dramatist, and educational reformer made him the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
"All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do." - Leo Tolstoy
"Boredom: the desire for desires." - Leo Tolstoy
"Boredom: the desire for desires." - Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy by ♫ Highway to Hell ♫ December 6, 2009
De-Tolstoy
Dude I tried to fix your Java code but it was a failed attempt. I had to De-Tolstoy it first. Only 20% of the original code was left when I finished.
De-Tolstoy by embe March 29, 2012
Tolstoys Beard
Tolstoys Beard by YoMamaSo April 3, 2023
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