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... even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly eat from the hands of the bondman without being mindful that he is such. O, Slavery, hateful thing that thou art thus to blunt the keen edge of conscience!

Susan B. Anthony

Art, Thinking, Hands

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There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.

Gertrude Stein

Equality, Differences, People

Gertrude Stein, Robert Bartlett Haas (1971). “A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein”

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I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted. When I cease to be carried along, when I no longer feel as though I were taking down dictation, I stop.

Francois Mauriac

Writing, Creative, Suits

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For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.

Hesiod

Night, Men, Race

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Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains.

Margaret Fuller

Mistake, Loneliness, Mountain

Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.173

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I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.But in this water there are countless objects at different depths; and certain influences will give certain kinds of those objects an upward influence which may be intense enough and continue long enough to bring them into the upper visible layer. After the impulse ceases they commence to sink downwards.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Thinking, Lakes, Long

Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). “Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”

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If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Moving, Ships, Tone

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[The sceptic] must acknowledge, if he will acknowledge any thing, that all human life must perish, were his principles to prevail.All discourse, all action would immediately cease, and men remain in a total lethargy, till the necessities of nature, unsatisfied, put an end to their miserable existence.

David Hume

Men, Principles, Action

David Hume (1788). “An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.162

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A preschool child does not emerge from your toddler on a given date or birthday. He becomes a child when he ceases to be a wayward, confusing, unpredictable and often balky person-in-the- making, and becomes a comparatively cooperative, eager-and-easy-to-please real human being--at least 60 per cent of the time.

Penelope Leach

Children, Real, Confusing

Penelope Leach (1989). “Your baby & child: from birth to age five”, Alfred A. Knopf

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When sleep enters the body like smoke
and man journeys into the abyss
like an extinguished star that is lighted elsewhere,
then all quarrel ceases,
overworked nag that has tossed the nightmare grip
of its rider.

Nelly Sachs

Stars, Sleep, Journey

Nelly Sachs (1967). “O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, Including the Verse Play, Eli”, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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And some cease feeling
Even themselves or for themselves.
Dullness best solves
The tease and doubt of shelling

Wilfred Owen

War, Feelings, Doubt

Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.37, New Directions Publishing

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One moment it's a cathedral, at another time there is no words to describe it when it ceases, for short periods of time, to have any regard for the proprieties that constitute not only Parliament, but its tradition. I've seen it in all its greatness. I have inwardly wept over it when it is degraded.

John Diefenbaker

Greatness, Tradition, Moments

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The only thing I can definitely say is that you cease to be self-conscious after you've had to kiss somebody on-camera with 30 people watching.

Anna Paquin

Kissing, Self, People

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Interventionism is inextricable from the American idea. If the United States retreats into isolationism, it ceases to be itself ? a nation dedicated, however much it falls short, to a universalist ideal of freedom.

Roger Cohen

Fall, Ideas, United States

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When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.

Sengcan

Mind, Arise

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Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention; they are in fact inextricably linked.

Susan Rice

Democracy, Prevention, Facts

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The four eaglets are my four sons who cease not to persecute me even unto death. The youngest of them, whom I now embrace with so much affection, will sometime in the end insult me more grievously and more dangerously than any of the others.

Henry II of France

Children, Son, Four

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During the long ages of class rule, which are just beginning to cease, only one form of sovereignty has been assigned to all men--that, namely, over all women. Upon these feeble and inferior companions all men were permitted to avenge the indignities they suffered from so many men to whom they were forced to submit.

Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

Men, Class, Long

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Incrementalism ceases to be a good strategy when there's a cliff on the route.

Seth Godin

Cliffs, Strategy, Routes

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To men and women everywhere Jesus says, "Come unto me, and I will give you rest." The rest He offers is the rest of meekness, the blessed relief which comes when we accept ourselves for what we are and cease to pretend.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Jesus, Blessed, Men

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Education doesn't cease when you leave college or leave the university. Education is a lifetime process.

Jim Rohn

College, Lifetime, Process

FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 04, 2014

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Death has no sting to a Believer. Once death was the penalty of sin-sin being forgiven, the penalty ceases and Christians do not die, now, as a punishment for their sin, but they die that they may be prepared to live!

Charles Spurgeon

Christian, Punishment, May

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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.

Anton Chekhov

People, Curious

Anton Chekhov (2015). “The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography: Assorted Collection of Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned Russian Author and Playwright of Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and The Seagull”, p.321, e-artnow

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People never cease to amaze us.

Frank Iero

People

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I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.

Beau Willimon

Xbox, Home, Thinking

"Banging Everything in Sight: My Trip to the LA Gun Club" by Beau Willimon, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.

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