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• When you are sick of your sickness you will cease to be sick.

  Laozi

  Sick, Sickness, Homeopathy

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• Whenever a human being ceases to live for themselves and begins to care about that which is greater than themselves, the personality begins to experience ecstasy, joy and spontaneous liberation. And that's found through doing, through action, through giving, through deeply embracing the human experience.

  Andrew Cohen

  God, Giving, Joy

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• He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought.

  James Allen

  Strong, Negative, Would Be

  James Allen (2007). “The Path to Prosperity”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.

  Virgil

  Prayer, Philosophical, Thinking

  "Aeneid" by Virgil, Book VI, (Line 376), 29 - 19 BC.

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• I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist either in Europe or America. But I am afraid lest they should only exist as a dead sect, having the form of religion without the power. And this undoubtedly will be the case unless they hold fast both the doctrine, spirit, and discipline with which they first set out.

  John Wesley

  Europe, America, Discipline

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.315

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• Servanthood does not nullify leadership; it defines it. Jesus does not cease to be the Lion of Judah when He becomes the lamblike servant of the church.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Church, Doe

  John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.51, SPCK

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• Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Giving, Suffering, Meaning Of Life

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• We want to have a spontaneous adventure. You can't plan an adventure, or it ceases to be one.

  Trey Anastasio

  Adventure, Want, Spontaneous

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• One can write out of love or hate. Hate tells one a great deal about a person. Love makes one become the person. Love, contrary to legend, is not half as blind, at least for writing purposes, as hate. Love can see the evil and not cease to be love. Hate cannot see the good and remain hate. The writer, writing out of hatred, will, thus, paint a far more partial picture than if he had written out of love.

  Jessamyn West

  Hate, Writing, Evil

  Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

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• When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.

  Paul Goodman

  Cities, Community, Village

  Paul Goodman (1966). “Five years”

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• If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.

  Graham Greene

  Long, Curiosity, Ifs

  Graham Greene (1992). “The Quiet American”

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• My fear is not that our great movement, known as the Methodists, will eventually cease to exist or one day die from the earth. My fear is that our people will become content to live without the fire, the power, the excitement, the supernatural element that makes us great.

  John Wesley

  Fire, Supernatural Elements, People

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• Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils.

  Isaiah

  Men, Breaths

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• With Superman, there are certain limitations for an actor. You can't go past certain boundaries because then you cease to be what the character is.

  Henry Cavill

  Character, Past, Actors

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• Do not search for the truth; Only cease to cherish opinions.

  Sengcan

  Opinion, Cherish

  Sengcan (1974). “Hsin Hsin Ming: Verses on the Faith Mind”, p.8, Eric Putkonen

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• Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the remotest notion that they were influencing us. In the Christian life, the implicit is never conscious, if it is conscious it ceases to have this unaffected loveliness which is the characteristic of the touch of Jesus. We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Jesus, People

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.478, Discovery House

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• The moment one asks himself whether he is happy, he ceases to be so.

  John Stuart Mill

  Moments, Asks

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• As soon as the theoretician attempts to take account of so-called 'utility' and 'reality' instead of absolute truth, his work will cease to be a polar star of seeking humanity and instead will become a prescription for everyday life.

  Adolf Hitler

  Stars, Reality, Humanity

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Having lost faith in all else, zealots have nothing left but a holy cause to please a warrior God. They win if we become holy warriors, too; if we kill the innocent as they do; strike first at those who had not struck us; allow our leaders to use the fear of terrorism to make us afraid of the truth; cease to think and reason together, allowing others to tell what's in God's mind.

  Bill Moyers

  Warrior, Winning, Thinking

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• When a branch of mathematics ceases to interest any but the specialists, it is very near its death, or at any rate dangerously close to a paralysis, from which it can be rescued only by being plunged back into the vivifying source of the science.

  Andre Weil

  Branches, Mathematics, Source

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• If we are ever to become what we might have been, we must cease being who we've become.

  Wendell Johnson

  Might, Has Beens, Ifs

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• When the striving ceases, there is life waiting as a gift.

  Saul Bellow

  Waiting, Strive

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• The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.

  Vernon Howard

  Storm, Moments, Ends

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• For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity, and makes greater Impression than Reason; though indeed no particular species of Nonsense is so durable. But the several Forms of Nonsense never cease succeeding one another; and Men are always under the Dominion of some one or other, though nothing was ever equal in Absurdity and Wickedness to our present Patriotism.

  David Hume

  Book, Men, Wickedness

  David Hume, J. Y. T. Greig (2011). “The Letters of David Hume:”, p.239, Oxford University Press, USA

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• At the 150-minute point of sitting in a standard theater chair, the human buttocks die; once dead, they cannot be revived. They cease to function, whatever that function may have been, and must be carried around like a sack, or two, of flour.

  Michael J. Nelson

  Two, Sitting, May

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