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«In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves»
«If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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«In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue»
«He's not pining, he's passed on. This parrot is no more. He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker. He's a stiff, bereft of life, he rests in peace. If you hadn't have nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies. He's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!»
Author: Monty Python
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«Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been , what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal , needs to be protected from people.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
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«I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.»
«For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.»