#cease

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice. ↗

— Victor Davis Hanson

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Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

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The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#ceases #country #day #free #religion

The friendship that can cease has never been real. ↗

— St. Jerome

#cease #friendship #never #real

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

— Franz Kafka

#ceases #free #only #spirit #support

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

#free #give #life #lives #making

The church acknowledges some Scientologists choose to sever communications with family members who leave. The church says it is a fundamental human right to cease communication with someone. It adds disconnection is used against expelled members and those who attack the church. ↗

— John Sweeney

#against #attack #cease #choose #church

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. ↗

— John Ruskin

#ceases #deprived #enjoyed #just #light

I lost more then 6 kilograms when I ceased with the top sport. That were all muscles. They are now gone. ↗

— Gabriela Sabatini

#gone #i #lost #more #muscles

I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it. ↗

— Gabriela Sabatini

#cease #day #every #every day #hours