Cessation Quotes
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The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.
Mahatma Gandhi
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What would it mean if we lived in a world in which no one held out for the possibility of substantial political equality, or for a full cessation of colonial practices - if no one held out for those things because they were impossible?
Judith Butler
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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.
Coleman Dowell
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It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace.
Tacitus
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For notwithstanding this rest and cessation from labor which is required on the Lord's day, yet three sorts of works may and ought to be performed. . . . these are works of piety, works of necessity, and works of charity.
Ezekiel Hopkins
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Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.
Gautama Buddha