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• Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Independent, Colony

  'Hansard' 5 February 1863

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• To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hope, Deep Thought, Hoping For The Best

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• When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

  Bob Dylan

  Compassion, Blame

  Song: Angelina

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• Every country that's ever been the most powerful country in the world ceases to be the most powerful country in the world at some point.

  Steve Earle

  Country, Powerful, World

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2004.

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• We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.

  Meister Eckhart

  Father, Lying, Bears

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• Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.

  Larry Elder

  War, Home, Fire

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• We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

  T. S. Eliot

  Truth, Character, Facts

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• Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

  Brian Eno

  Space, Ephemeral, Painting

  "Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers talk Scape, iPad apps and generative music". Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2012.

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  There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

  Epictetus

  Happiness, Happy, Success

  Epictetus (2016). “The Philosophy of Epictetus: Golden Sayings and Fragments”, p.87, Courier Dover Publications

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• If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

  Epictetus

  Philosophical, Libertarian, Moderation

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• Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

  Edna Ferber

  Life, Women, Struggle

  In R. E. Drennan Wit's End (1973)

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• Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

  E. M. Forster

  Courage, Literature, Be Courageous

  "Pharos and Pharillon" by E.M. Forster, 1923.

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• A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Love, Wise, Independent

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• Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Selfish, Laughing

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• God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  God, Believe, Doe

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories.

  Stephen Hawking

  Running, Memories, Thinking

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• That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

  William Hazlitt

  Wise, Self, Evident

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• When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

  William Hazlitt

  Political, Internet, Free Speech

  The Atlas 31 January, (1830) 'The Spirit of Controversy'

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• We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

  William Hazlitt

  Thinking, Effectiveness, Wells

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.97

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• Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Miracle, Corny

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  Proper Studies "A Note on Dogma" (1927)

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• A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, War, Tyrants

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.71, Transaction Publishers

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• Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

  Aldous Huxley

  Solemn

  Aldous Huxley (1970). “Collected Works: Do what you will”

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