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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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• A gift that cannot be given away ceases to be a gift. The spirit of a gift is kept alive by its constant donation.

  Lewis Hyde

  Alive, Spirit, Donation

  Lewis Hyde (2006). “The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World”, p.16, Canongate Books

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• What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Without the freedom to challenge, even to satirize all orthodoxies, it ceases to exist. Language and the imagination cannot be imprisoned, or art will die, and with it, a little of what makes us human.

  Salman Rushdie

  Art, Expression, Imagination

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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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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• And I say to you that if you bring curiosity to your work it will cease to be merely a job and become a door through which you enter the best that life has to give you.

  Robertson Davies

  Jobs, Doors, Giving

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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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• Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.

  Ameen Rihani

  Pride, Virtue

  Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.158, Syracuse University Press

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• After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Numbers, Crowds, Matter

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.231, Hachette UK

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• We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted for the judgment of the representative.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, Too Much, Pressure

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.406, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• It may be that a free society... carries in itself the forces of its own destruction, that once freedom has been achieved it is taken for granted and ceases to be valued, and that the free growth of ideas which is the essence of a free society will bring about the destruction of the foundations on which it depends.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Taken, Essence, Ideas

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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 most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it; or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it. for when this reason ceased, the law itself ought likewise to cease with it.

  William Blackstone

  Law, Dubious, Way

  William Blackstone (2016). “Commentaries on the Laws of England: Of the Rights of People”, p.47, Oxford University Press

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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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• We need to close every church in the land for one Sunday and cease listening to a man so we can hear the groan of the Spirit which we in our lush pews have forgotten.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Sunday, Men, Land

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• If we don't kill, we will cease to exist

  Max Blumenthal

  Ifs

  Max Blumenthal (2014). “Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel”, p.428, Nation Books

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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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• Sabbath ceasing means to cease not only from work itself, but also from the need to accomplish and be productive, from the worry and tension that accompany our modern criterion of efficiency, from our efforts to be in control of our lives as if we were God, from our possessiveness and our enculturation, and, finally, from the humdrum and meaninglessness that result when life is pursued without the Lord at the center of it all.

  Marva Dawn

  Mean, Worry, Effort

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• Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that.

  Franz Kafka

  Eye, Discovery, Disappear

  Franz Kafka “Franz Kafka Vol 2”, Lulu.com

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• If you are willing to look at another person's behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person. then you will, over a period of time, cease to react at all.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Relationship, Spiritual

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• Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sin, Come Up

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.178, Penguin

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• As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Satisfied, Grows

  Bertrand Russell (1987). “Bertrand Russell on ethics, sex, and marriage”

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