#cease

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

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. ↗

— Georges Bataille

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Pagan lifted one shoulder and I prayed by all that was holy that she’d take off that pink bra. This may be invading her privacy but I was Death, dammit. I should get some privileges. ↗

— Abbi Glines

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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. ↗

— Mark Twain

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I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit. ↗

— John Cleese

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