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• Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.

  Katharine Tynan

  People, Tricks, Wince

  Katharine Tynan (1913). “Twenty-five Years: Reminiscences”

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• Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases to be young.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Essence, Essentials, Youth

  Rebecca Goldstein (1993). “The Mind-Body Problem”, Penguin Group USA

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• Let the man stand on his feet. Let religion cease to be occasional; and the pulses of thought that go to the borders of the universe, let them proceed from the bosom of the Household.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Feet, Pulse

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.109, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• Alas, so all things now do hold their peace:
  Heaven and earth disturbed in no thing:
  The beasts, the air, the birds their song do cease;
  The nightes chare the stars about doth bring.

  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

  Song, Peace, Stars

  Henry Howard, “Alas! So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace”

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• ... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Morality, Action, Influence

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• When the heart is full of joy, it always allows its joy to escape. It is like the fountain in the marketplace; whenever it is full it runs away in streams, and so soon as it ceases to overflow, you may be quite sure that it has ceased to be full. The only full heart is the overflowing heart.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Running, Heart, Joy

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1857 & 1858: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.1446, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• I remember I would not stand still; I would not stop being perplexed by everything that spontaneously attracted me or caught my attention. I would never cease to look around me and observe myself in relation to nature: either crystal clear skies and sun-melting afternoons, or foggy winter days and weirdly tinted nights. I would never cease to dream and stand by the window, ready to let the diversity of life pass freely through my skin; courageous enough to believe I stood a chance in devouring each shade of sensation. Or perhaps, immensely foolish to plainly - believe at all.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Believe, Winter

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• Paradoxically, when 'dumb' money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb.

  Warren Buffett

  Dumb, Acknowledge, Limitation

  1993 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter, www.businessinsider.com.

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• I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire.

  Thomas Paine

  Flames, Shining, Liberty

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• You wanted God's ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be the almighty Creator of heaven and earth so that he could properly fulfill your wish. And yet, if he were to share your ideas, he would cease to be the almighty Father.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Father, Ideas, Heaven

  "Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, p. 37, 1843.

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• Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Example, Governing

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• Both John F. Kennedy and Nelson Mandela use the same three-word phrase which in my mind says it all, which is ‘Freedom is indivisible. You can’t slice it up, otherwise it ceases to be freedom. You can dislike Charlie Hebdo … but the fact that you dislike them has nothing to do with their right to speak.

  Salman Rushdie

  Freedom, Mind, Three

  "Salman Rushdie: Don’t blame Charlie Hebdo - free speech ‘indivisible’ or not at all" by Cheryl K. Chumley, www.washingtontimes.com. January 15, 2015.

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  It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, People, Care

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.162, Modern Library

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• To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.

  Pindar

  Grieving, Giving, Sorrow

  Gilbert West, Pindar (1753). “Odes of Pindar: With Several Other Pieces in Prose and Verse, Translated from the Greek. To which is Added A Dissertation on Olympick Games”, p.111

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• It is a common remark that men talk most who think least; just as frogs cease their quacking when a light is brought to the water-side.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Men, Thinking, Light

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• We call upon the nuclear-weapon states to immediately cease their plans to further invest in modernizing and extending the life span of their nuclear weapons and related facilities.

  Mohammad Javad Zarif

  Life, Nuclear, Weapons

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• We demand an unconditional peace, we demand a cease-fire, a withdrawal of all foreign troops, and closing of the border.... We will find a compromise within the country.

  Petro Poroshenko

  Country, Peace, Fire

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• And I have stopped eating tuna until the tuna nets cease killing tens of thousands of dolphins every single year.

  Steve Irwin

  Years, Dolphins, Tuna

  Steve Irwin, Terri Irwin (2002). “The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin”, p.212, Penguin

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• Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they're ratified into law.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Errors, Law, Gadflies

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• Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.

  John Dewey

  Preparation, Mere, Present Life

  John Dewey (1967). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1893-1894. Early essays and The study of Ethics, a syllabus”, p.50, SIU Press

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• When you have an animal in your home, a relationship forms very quickly, where that animal ceases to be an animal to you. It feels like a member of your family.

  Elijah Wood

  Home, Animal, Form

  Source: collider.com

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• We [H&M] believe that growth, profit and sustainability are not contradictory. Our ambition is to be a fair and profitable company, because otherwise we couldn't open any new stores, we couldn't produce new designs and no new jobs would be created. H&M would soon cease to exist.

  Karl-Johan Persson

  Jobs, Believe, Ambition

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• God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Inferiority, Mark

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Let us fear God and we shall cease to fear man.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Men, Fear God

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, India, Slavery

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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