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• If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to be dynamic. Most of all, it ceases to be intimate. It degenerates into a monologue or a mutter. An unreviewed book is a struck bell that gives no resonance. Without reviews, literature would be oddly mute in spite of all those words on all those pages of all those books. Reviewing makes of reading a participant sport, not a spectator sport.

  Patricia Hampl

  Sports, Book, Reading

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• I beseech you, one and all, to add your prayers to mine to the end that war and bloodshed cease, and that love, friendship, peace and unity reign in the world.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Prayer, War, Unity

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• The only fight you cannot win is the one you are not willing to fight. And the only dream that you cannot make come true is the one you cease to dream.

  Sergio Bambaren

  Dream, Fighting, Winning

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• What in thinking only occasionally and quasi-metaphorically happens, to retreat from the world of appearances, takes place in aging and dying as an appearance… in this sense thinking is an anticipation of dying (ceasing, ‘to cease to be among men’) just as action in the sense of ‘to make a beginning’ is a repetition of birth.

  Hannah

  Men, Thinking, Dying

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• When mind exists undisturbed in the Way, nothing in the world can offend, and when a thing can no longer offend it ceases to exist in the old way. When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.

  Sengcan

  Mind, World, Way

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• For the unified mind in accord with the Way all self-centered striving ceases. Doubts and irresolutions vanish and life in true faith is possible. With a single stroke we are freed from bondage; nothing clings to us and we hold nothing. All is empty, clear, self-illuminating, with no exertion of the mind's power.

  Sengcan

  Self, Doubt, Mind

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• When parents say, "I wish my child did not have autism," what they’re really saying is, "I wish the autistic child I have did not exist, and I had a different [nonautistic] child instead." Read that again. This is what we hear when you mourn over our existence. This is what we hear when you pray for a cure. This is what we know, when you tell us of your fondest hopes and dreams for us: that your greatest wish is that one day we will cease to be, and strangers you can love will move in behind our faces.

  Jim Sinclair

  Dream, Children, Moving

  "Don't Mourn for Us". Jim Sinclair, "Our Voice" (the Autism Network International newsletter), Volume 1, Number 3, 1993.

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• When every minute of your day is planned & you are packed for days,
  you shall soon realize that the pain of past fades, vision of life gets
  clearer and all that seemed to poison your life Ceases to exist.

  Sujit Lalwani

  Pain, Past, Vision

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• A truly educated man never ceases to learn.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Men, Educated, Educated Man

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• In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue and peace is spoken.

  Pope Francis

  Silence, Weapons, Language

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• You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.

  Chris Prentiss

  Forever, Substance, Behavior

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.115, BookBaby

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• We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Inspiring

  Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton (2001). “Now, Discover Your Strengths”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Mistake, Imperfection

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• True repentance is to cease from sin.

  Ambrose

  Sin, Repentance, True Repentance

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 509, 1895.

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• One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Long, Want, Taste

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.117, Penguin

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• Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Bravery, Certain, Mere

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Plays, stories”, p.106, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Miracle, Over You

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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• We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Rights, Expression

  The Sinews of Peace, delivered 5 March 1946 Westminster College, Fulton Missouri

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• God works as long as His people live daringly; He ceases when they no longer need His aid.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Long, People, Needs

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• Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.

  Eric Hoffer

  Radicalism, Economy, Radical

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

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• How does gravity work? And if it were to cease suddenly, would certain restaurants still require a jacket?

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Humor, Science

  "Mere Anarchy", 2007.

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• I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

  Mark Twain

  Age, Earth, Way

  Mark Twain (2015). “Complete Letters of Mark Twain”, p.689, Litres

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• I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

  Mark Twain

  Names, Differences, Polka

  Mark Twain (1957). “Mark Twain of the Enterprise: newspaper articles & other documents, 1862-1864”

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• If you have form'd a circle to go into,
  Go into it yourself, and see how you would do.
  
  They said this mystery never shall cease:
  The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.

  William Blake

  War, Circles, Soldier

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.151, Wordsworth Editions

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• We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult for any but natives to speak a language correctly or idiomatically.

  William Hazlitt

  Thinking, Reason Why, Language

  William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.97

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