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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot

Time, End, Place

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Buddha

Love, Hatred, Rule

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein

Death, Growth, Birth

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus

Happiness, Power, Beyond

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Learning, Passion, Grow

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde

Great, Artist, Sees

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
Winston Churchill

Forget, Against, Until

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
David Rockefeller

Life, Good, Sad

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.
Thomas Jefferson

Violence, Shall, Took

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde

War, Long, Popular

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
Eleanor Roosevelt

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Eleanor Roosevelt

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais Nin

Religion, Political, Become

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw

Life, Funny, Laugh

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Times, Faithful, Cause

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Anais Nin

Art, Meaning, Perception

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Aldous Huxley

War, Democracy, Country

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?
Bob Dylan

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
Charles Caleb Colton

True, Friends, Again

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley

Facts, Exist, Ignored

Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that.
Mitt Romney

Government, Free, Become

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
T. S. Eliot

Best, Character, Become

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Leo Tolstoy

Work, God, Moment

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. Mencken

War, Until, Begin

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
Horace

Future, Whatever, Gift

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
Aldous Huxley

Else, Rare, Solemn

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
John Muir

Storm, Few, Silent

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
Albert Schweitzer

Faith, Problems, Learn

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
Epictetus

Greatest, Please, Moderation

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
Thomas Carlyle

Life, Individual, Behavior

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