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• Incredible. It never ceases to amaze Starkey how far society will go to protect the children it loves and to discard the ones it doesn’t.

  Neal Shusterman

  Children, Incredibles, Protect

  Neal Shusterman (2014). “UnSouled”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Doe, Cost

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.332, Penguin

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• If the same object from two different times touches itself, one of two things will happen. Either the Universe will cease to exist. Or three remarkable dwarfs will dance through the streets with flowerpots on their heads.

  Neil Gaiman

  Two, Different, Three

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “Fortunately, the Milk...”, p.74, A&C Black

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• Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.

  Lin Yutang

  Inspirational, Positive, Joy

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a muse' d rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy!

  John Keats

  Art, Time, Pain

  Ode to Nightingale St. 6 (1820)

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• The time will come when every change shall cease,
  This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace:
  No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze;
  Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past,
  But an eternal now shall ever last.

  Petrarch

  Summer, Rest In Peace, Time

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• The present is our own; but while we speak,
  We cease from its possession, and resign
  The stage we tread on, to another race,
  As vain, and gay, and mortal as ourselves.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Time, Gay, Race

  Thomas Love Peacock (1931). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931”

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• Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Time, Giving

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.25, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

  John Cotton Dana

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  John Cotton Dana's remarks on a quotation suitable for inscription on a new building at Newark State College, Union, New Jersey (1912) as quoted in "The New York Times Book Review" (p. 55.), March 5, 1967.

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• Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

  Maya Angelou

  Education, Helping, Strange

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• Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

  John Stuart Mill

  Happiness, Happy, Heart

  Autobiography ch. 5 (1873)

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• May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

  Lord Chesterfield

  Health, Blessing, Long

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.313

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• No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say that the shock can leave the faith in the Invisible Goodness unshaken. With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too; we cease to believe in our own better self, since that also is part of the common nature which is degraded in our thought; and all the finer impulses of the soul are dulled.

  George Eliot

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Believe

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.139

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• At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself.

  E. P. Thompson

  Views, History, Certain

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• One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.

  John Andrew Rice

  Lonely, People, History

  John Andrew Rice (2014). “I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century”, p.112, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law.
  A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Government, Law, History

  Theodore Roosevelt (1955). “Theodore Roosevelt's America: Selections from the Writings of the Oyster Bay Naturalist”

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• Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.

  Thornton Wilder

  Intelligence, Favors, Conditions

  Thornton Wilder (2009). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948”

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• All ye that pass by!
  While we least think it he prepares his Mate.
  Mate, and the King's pawn played, it never ceases,
  Though all the earth is dust of taken pieces.

  John Masefield

  Life, Kings, Taken

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• There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation - never ceases to love.

  Paul Bourget

  Life, Love Is, Men

  "The Age for Love" by Paul Bourget,

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• Love is most nearly itself
  When here and now cease to matter.
  Old men ought to be explorers
  Here or there does not matter
  We must be still and still moving
  Into another intensity
  For a further union, a deeper communion
  Through the dark cold and the empty desolation,
  The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters
  Of the petrel and the porpoise.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Moving, Dark

  T.S. Eliot (2016). “Cuatro cuartetos: Precedido por La roca y Asesinato en la Catedral”, p.99, LUMEN

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• The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Issues, Government, Adoption

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• I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair.

  Sonny Rollins

  Music, Progress, Despair

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• The time has come to lower our voices, to cease imposing our mechanistic patterns on the biological processes of the earth, to resist the impulse to control, to command, to force, to oppress, and to begin quite humbly to follow the guidance of the larger community on which all life depends.

  Thomas Berry

  Nature, Animal, Voice

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• We shall not cease from exploration

  T. S. Eliot

  Nature, Exploration

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

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• Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!

  Lord Byron

  Peace, Solitude, Mark

  George Gordon Byron, “The Bride Of Abydos”

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