#ceases

The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong. ↗

— James Monroe

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What we share with another ceases to be our own. ↗

— Edgar Quinet

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Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist. ↗

— Ned Rorem

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The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical. ↗

— Alexander Duff

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The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

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