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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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• If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. So Obama will rise or fall based not so much on what he does but on what we do to support him.

  Michael Moore

  Fall, Support, Democracy

  "'Capitalism is evil,' says new Michael Moore film" by Mike Collett-White, www.reuters.com. September 6, 2009.

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• Reading Christians are growing Christians. When Christians cease to read, they cease to grow.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Reading, Growing

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• The parasite of art, the virus of art, never ceases to gnaw awat at your brain, never ceases to torture you with the knowledge that whatever you’re doing could be done more beautifully, more powerfully, more stirringly, more disturbingly, more deeply.

  Brian Morton

  Art, Brain, Viruses

  Brian Morton (2004). “A Window Across the River”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Be patient, do nothing, cease striving. We find this advice disheartening and therefore unfeasible because we forget it is our own inflexible activity that is structuring the reality. We think that if we do not hustle, nothing will happen and we will pine away. But the reality is probably in motion and after a while we might take part in that motion. But one can't know.

  Paul Goodman

  Reality, Thinking, Advice

  Paul Goodman (1966). “Five years”

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• All laws that are proper and correct, and all obligations entered into which are not violative of the constitution should be kept inviolate. But if they are violative of the constitution, then the compact between the rulers and the ruled is broken and the obligation ceases to be binding.

  John Taylor

  Law, Broken, Constitution

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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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• You will know how to stop suffering as soon as suffering ceases to be valuable. If you are in pain, you are being led.

  Martha Beck

  Pain, Suffering, Valuable

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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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• If you remove enjoyment of God from faith in God, it ceases to be faith.

  John Piper

  Faith In God, Enjoyment, Remove

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• These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust.

  Virgil

  Death, Passion, Dust

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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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• Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing, Read you not the wrong you're doing In my cheek's pale hue? All my life with sorrow strewing; Wed or cease to woo.

  Thomas Campbell

  Heart, Sorrow, Hue

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.167

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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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• Whoever uses force without Right ... puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.

  John Locke

  War, Rights, Ties

  John Locke (2012). “The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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• He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian.

  John Locke

  Christian, Doctrine, Deny

  John Locke (1824). “The Works of John Locke: The reasonableness of Christianity. A vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity, from Mr. Edward's reflections. A second vindication”, p.232

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• Between complete socialism and communism there is no difference whatever in my mind.Communism is in fact the completion of socialism; when that ceases to be militant and becomes triumphant, it will be communism.

  William Morris

  Differences, Mind, Facts

  William Morris (1984). “Political writings of William Morris”, Lawrence & Wishart Ltd

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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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• Sometimes it'll happen to people, that their self will stop coming through. And people will just cease to understand them.

  Ezra Miller

  Self, People, Sometimes

  Interview with Kate Bosworth, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2011.

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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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