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Rational argument can be conducted with some prospect of success only so long as the emotionality of a given situation does not exceed a certain critical degree. If the affective temperature rises above this level, the possibility of reason’s having any effect ceases and its place is taken by slogans and chimerical wish fantasies. That is to say, a sort of collective possession results which rapidly develops into a psychic epidemic.

Carl Jung

added by Normando
1 year ago

Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against freedom of print, it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory. The nation ceases to be mindful of itself, it is deprived of its spiritual unity, and despite a supposedly common language, compatriots suddenly cease to understand one another.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

added by Normando
2 years ago

America is great because America is good. If America ever ceases to be good it will cease to be great.

Alexis de Tocqueville

added by Normando
2 years ago

When a President is no longer in office, the objective of an impeachment ceases.

Brian Kalt

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don’t adjust! Revolt against the reality!

Mordechai Anielewicz

added by Normando
3 years ago

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.

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

added by subodhchakranarayan1
3 years ago

The report has to be laid before parliament when it is sitting, if it is not laid before Parliament ceases to sit this evening, it will not be capable of being laid until the committee is reformed, and in 2017 that took nearly six months.

Christopher Pincher

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There is essentially one major challenge the climate regime is facing and will continue to face in the years to come, we have sensed that unfortunately there is a tendency on the part of many players ... to act as if after the Paris Agreement everything that came before it ceases to exist.

Leonardo Cleaver de Athayde

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I see a burn-out factor, it ceases becoming fun and becomes a chore. And when its a chore, you start to lose kids, Jay Paris said.

Jay Paris

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It is crucial for the world economy that this man-made uncertainty ceases.

William De Vijlder

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

If there's not a strong Western response in terms of a statement, but also one that says there will be consequences unless Russia ceases and desists, the Russians may conclude they can get away with this.

Steven Pifer

Found on CNN
5 years ago

any form of expression that ceases to be an experience and becomes an art form loses its glowing divinity”

Jo M. Sekimonyo

added by anonymous
6 years ago

We have three primary runways here all in excess of 10,000 feet long. We can get a runway cleaned in 18 to 22 minutes, once that runway is done we move on to the next and keep that rotation going until the snowfall ceases.

Zaramie Lindseth

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It never ceases to amaze me how fast we can grow those corals and how well they are doing.

Ken Nedimyer

Found on CNN
8 years ago

When hate for hatred if returned, hate ceases and strife ensues, when love for hatred if returned hate ceases and love ensues. So Love everyone and MickeyMize everyone's life.

Mickey Mehta

added by Mickeymized
9 years ago

The 100th anniversary is a very important moment because we're at a time now where this campaign ceases to be about memory and slides into history, all of the veterans have died, those with any living memory of the Great War have gone.

Bruce Scates

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It never ceases to amaze me how a simple molecule such as saccharin— something many people put in their coffee every day— may have untapped uses, including as a possible lead compound to target aggressive cancers.

Robert McKenna

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Golf is like meditation, it's the reason I love playing the game. For that day or week, the rest of the world ceases to exist. I go into my happy place, which is the golf course. It's a very special place for me to do my thing and play golf.

Anirban Lahiri

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

If the Palestinian Authority ceases, or were to cease security cooperation, or even decide to disband as a result of their economic predicament, and that could happen in the future if they don't receive additional revenues, then we would be faced by yet another crisis, we are working hard to prevent that from happening and that is why we have been reaching out to key stakeholders to express these concerns and also to try to work together to find a solution to this challenge.

State John Kerry on Saturday

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Both John F. Kennedy and Nelson Mandela use the same three-word phrase which in my mind says it all, which is, 'Freedom is Indivisible,' you can't slice it up, otherwise it ceases to be freedom. You can dislike Charlie Hedbo. ... But the fact that you dislike them has nothing to do with their right to speak.

Salman Rushdie

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

What we share with another ceases to be our own.

Edgar Quinet

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Kitty became so idealized and started to lead her own life in the diary that it ceases to matter who is meant by 'Kitty'. The name ... is not meant to be me.

Kathe Egyedi

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

Miguel de Cervantes

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It never ceases to baffle me at how one's more willing to accept the unacceptable as long as it can be rationalized

Ahmed Korayem

added by anonymous
11 years ago

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