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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
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A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.
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A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.
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When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.
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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
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A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
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A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.
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After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
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Both rings are round, and there the resemblance ceases.
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien -
But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.
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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being ''somebody,'' to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.
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Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.
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Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act... The seat of this sensation is the pit of the stomach.
The Name and Nature of Poetry -
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.
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If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
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If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
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If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.
The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 22 -
Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.
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Knowledge must be so absorbed into the mind that it ceases to exist in a separate, objective way. ...in 1797 the secret of the effectiveness of resisting to the last had not yet been discovered.
On War (1832)
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