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• An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black man from Africa.

  James A. Baldwin

  Men, Black, Faces

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• I never cease to wonder at the amazing presumption of much of white society, assuming that they have the right to bargain with the Negro for his freedom.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, Assuming, Wonder

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• The hardest thing for everyone, for the writer, for the director and certainly for the actors, is not to panic when they're doing a certain line for the tenth time because everything ceases to be funny after it's been repeated.

  Ivan Reitman

  Directors, Actors, Lines

  Source: collider.com

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• Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas, the heart hardens as the blood ceases to run. The cold snow strikes down from the head, and checks the glow of feeling. Who wants to survive into old age after abdicating all his faculties one by one, and be sans teeth, sans eyes, sans memory, sans hope, sans sympathy?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Running, Memories, Selfish

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2008). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.353, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Lord save us, first you have a heart, now you have a god? Will wonders never cease?

  Anne Stuart

  Heart, Firsts, Wonder

  Anne Stuart (2015). “Anne Stuart The House of Rohan Box Set: The Wicked House of Rohan\Ruthless\Reckless\Breathless\Shameless”, p.333, MIRA

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• You will never be more than a common Christian until you give up your own interest and cease defending yourself.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Giving Up, Common

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• Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.

  James Anthony Froude

  Morality, Divine, Obligation

  James Anthony Froude (2011). “Bunyan”, p.181, Cambridge University Press

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• Once, once for all, if you would save your heart from breaking, learn this lesson once for all you must cease, in this world, to believe in the eternity of any creed or form at all. Whatever grows in time is a child of time, and is born and lives, and dies at its appointed day like ourselves.

  James Anthony Froude

  Children, Believe, Heart

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.33

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• Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn the world. Earth would become an hell; for future rewards when put off to a great distance, would cease to encourage, and future punishments to alarm.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Distance, Men, World

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.201

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• While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.

  William Hazlitt

  Desire, Enjoy, Enjoyment

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1468, Delphi Classics

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• I entered the Communist Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Party, Causes, Communist

  "Dirty Hands". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 5, sc. 3, 1948.

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• Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Men

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron 's struggle cease.

  Matthew Arnold

  Struggle, Sleep, Long

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.160, Delphi Classics

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• If the earth should cease to attract its waters to itself all the waters of the sea would be raised and would flow to the body of the moon.

  Johannes Kepler

  Moon, Sea, Water

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 36), 1920.

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• I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Social, Advantage, Scarce

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• In general, inquiry ceases when we adopt a theory. After that, we overlook whatever makes against it, and see and think, and talk and write, only in its favor. Indeed, when we have a snug, comfortable theory, to which we are much attached, they appear to us as a very mean set of facts that will not square with it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.167

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• The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: "Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Thinking, Self

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Daniel Breazeale, R. J. Hollingdale (1983). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.127, Cambridge University Press

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• What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.

  Criss Jami

  Reality, Thinking, Helping

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.32, Criss Jami

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• The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and efficient as letting you and the other chap, or chaps, cease to be totally sober at about the same rate in agreeable surroundings.

  Kingsley Amis

  Ice, Race, Way

  Kingsley Amis (2010). “Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. ...Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Communication, Mean

  "What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1896.

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• You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Over You, Asking, Dies

  Leo Tolstoy (2007). “War and Peace”, p.272, Penguin

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• Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom of print," it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory. The nation ceases to be mindful of itself, it is deprived of its spiritual unity, and despite a supposedly common language, compatriots suddenly cease to understand one another.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Memories, Heart

  Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's Nobel lecture in literature delivered only to the Swedish Academy, www.nobelprize.org. 1970.

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• You should never try to be better than someone else, you should always be learning from others. But you should never cease trying to be the best you could be because that's under your control and the other isn't.

  John Wooden

  Trying, Being The Best, Should

  Interview on "Charlie Rose Show", archive.org. June 14, 2000.

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• A woman ... all beautiful and accomplished will, while her hand and heart are undisposed of, turn the heads and set the circle in which she moves on fire. Let her marry, and what is the consequence? The madness ceases and all is quiet again. Why? Not because there is any diminution in the charms of the lady, but because there is an end of hope.

  George Washington

  Marriage, Beautiful, Moving

  George Washington (1908). “Letters and Addresses,”

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• And if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary Him with my assiduous cries.

  John Milton

  Prayer, Cry, Incessant

  John Milton (1874). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: Memoir of Milton. Paradise lost”, p.310

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