Ceases Quotes
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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
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If you lose count of how many cookies you ate, the calorie intake ceases to exist. True story.
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As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
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Suffering ceases to be suffering when you have a redemptive perspective.
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All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them.
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When we make decisions, about eating or anything else, with an attitude of kindness and acceptance toward ourselves, with awareness of what is involved in our choices, the conflict between deprivation and indulgence ceases to exist.
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The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.
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A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
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We often hear the teachers of all creeds lamenting the difficulty of keeping up in the minds of believers a lively apprehension of the truth which they nominally recognize, so that it may penetrate the feelings, and acquire a real mastery over the conduct.... When it has come to be a hereditary creed, and to be received passively, not actively ... there is a progressive tendency to forget all of the belief except the formularies ... until it almost ceases to connect itself at all with the inner life of the human being.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.
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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.
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Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.
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Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.
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Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides.
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Whenever we think we have final answers progress, science, and better understanding ceases.
