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• A "godly" person is one who ceases to be self-centered in order to become God-centered.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Godly, Self, Order

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “So, You Want To Be Like Christ?: Eight Essentials to Get You There”, p.11, Thomas Nelson

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• Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their faith to others' precepts in such wise that they lose their liberty, and cease to give credence to the conclusions of their proper senses. Neither do they swear such fealty to their mistress Antiquity that they openly, and in sight of all, deny and desert their friend Truth.

  William Harvey

  Wise, Sight, Giving

  William Harvey, Edward Jenner (2010). “Scientific Papers: Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology”, p.66, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Creativity, Errors, Play

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• There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.

  Max Eastman

  Men, Opinion, Conform

  Max Eastman (1951). “Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology”

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• What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Hate, Fire, Self

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• And when I hear it said that God is good and He will pardon us, and then see that men cease not from evil-doing, oh, how it grieves me! The infinite goodness with which God communicates with us, sinners as we are, should constantly make us love and serve Him better; but we, on the contrary, instead of seeing in his goodness an obligation to please Him, convert it into an excuse for sin which will of a certainty lead in the end to our deeper condemnation.

  Catherine of Genoa

  Men, Grieving, Evil

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• It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.

  Aldous Huxley

  Years, Space, Tourists

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• If a person is cold and rigid, he feels within himself as if he were in a grave. He is not living, he cannot enjoy this life for he cannot express himself and he cannot see the light and life outside. What keeps man from developing the heart quality? His exacting attitude. He wants to make a business of love. He says, 'If you will love me, I will love you.' As soon as a man measures and weighs his favors and his services and all that he does for one whom he loves, he ceases to know what love is. Love sees the beloved and nothing else.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Attitude, Love You, Heart

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: Sufi Mysticism”, p.194, Library of Alexandria

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• Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here."

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hell, Hopelessness, Entrances

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• Women never cease to impress and inspire me.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Inspire, Impress

  "Iconic Fashion Designer von Furstenberg Says Women Never Cease to Impress and Amaze Her" by Laura Zaccaro and Suzan Clarke, abcnews.go.com. February 10, 2010.

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• I love breasts. I love the female shape. It's crazy - you can have movie posters with men with machine guns but, oh, God forbid you show the nipples! That never ceases to amaze me.

  Helena Christensen

  Crazy, Men, Gun

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• He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Men, Doctors

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.286, Jaico Publishing House

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• The novel ceases to be looked at as a novel. Such is the overwhelming power of motion pictures. Gore Vidal pointed out that the movies are the only thing anybody's really interested in. The association with movies and movie money can, and certainly did in my case, occlude a novel as a novel.

  William Monahan

  Association, Motion Pictures, Cases

  Source: collider.com

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• I know that applause is food for the arts, but it ceases to be wholesome if administered indiscriminately; and the nutrition is so rich that, far from strengthening the constitution, it disturbs and enfeebles it. Stage beginners are similar to those children totally spoiled by the blind affection of their parents.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Art, Children, Parent

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• ...a rainy day ceases to have meaning for a person who has lived in the open under a monsoon cloud most of his life.

  Vikas Swarup

  Rainy Day, Clouds, Monsoons

  Vikas Swarup (2005). “Q & A: A Novel”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• Love decreases when it ceases to increase.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Increase, Decrease

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• If someone betrays you once, it is his fault. If he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, they will never cease to be amused. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

  Henry Ford

  Blessed, Eye, Goal

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• But since everything and anything are always possible, the miraculous is always nearby, and wonders shall never, ever cease.

  Robert Fulghum

  Wonder, Miraculous

  Robert Fulghum (2011). “Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life”, p.5, Ballantine Books

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• Book critics or theatre critics can be derisively negative and gain delighted praise for the trenchant with of their review. But in criticisms of religion even clarity ceases to be a virtue and sounds like aggressive hostility. A politician may attack an opponent scathingly across the floor of the House and earn plaudits for his robust pugnacity. But let a soberly reasoning critic of religion employ what would in other contexts sound merely direct or forthright, and it will be described as a 'rant'.

  Richard Dawkins

  Book, House, Criticism

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Each day should be devoted to miracles. The purpose of time is to enable you to
  learn how to use time constructively.
  It is thus a teaching device and a means to an end.
  Time will cease when it is no longer useful in facilitating learning.

  Kenneth Wapnick

  Teaching, Mean, Miracle

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• There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.

  Gautama Buddha

  Sick, Dying, World

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• Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things "which cannot be shared," and if they raise themselves to a point where they adopt an abstract principle superior to their egotisms. In other words, it can only be obtained by a betterment of human morality.

  Julien Benda

  Men, Principles, Morality

  Julien Benda (1969). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”

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• If the Fed ceases hiking, against the backdrop of still rising commodity prices, then the Australian dollar will have few reasons for resisting any topside advances.

  Craig Ferguson

  Commodity Prices, Hiking, Dollars

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• I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. I believe that I will return. Poets always return in flesh or on paper.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Believe, Paper, Flesh

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• You mock those who blindly follow the majority...turn your attention now to those who are so dedicated to deviating from the norm that they would gladly cease breathing if it were suggested to them that inhalation was a form of conformity; for they deserve just as much scrutiny and ridicule.

  Demetri Martin

  Breathing, Majority, Attention

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