"Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at meanspirited roadhouses."
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"All that has been hidden is rising, there is no stopping it! These things you cannot hide: the sun, the moon, and TRUTH."
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"I can now see to the bottom of my own depths, there is nothing stopping my gaze, no obstacle is in the way. And there is nothing there."
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"In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates."
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"Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping."
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"This is exciting, it is bold and it is absolutely necessary if we are to have any chance of stopping potentially catastrophic changes to our climate system."
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"There is no stopping place in this life--nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone."
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"The wrong answers are stopping the right ones from emerging."
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"The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just as possible as its existence."
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"Stopping emissions growth represents the most minimal of do-something responses."
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"I'm more old-fashioned than a lot of women...I don't view abortion as just a nothing. It is stopping the process of life."
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"Get into "the state:" Conquer fear by stopping thinking about yourself and instead, focusing 100 percent on how you can best serve your audience."
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"...stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel sh*t from a sitting position."
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"Only when creation stops can we find the Absolute. The Absolute is in the soul, not in creation. So by stopping creation, we come to know the Absolute."
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"I feel like everyone's starting to isolate, and that proves itself in a big context like Brexit, and Donald Trump potentially, and putting walls up and stopping people coming in."
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"At 19, if a woman said no, no meant no. If she didn't say anything and she was open, and she was down, it was like how far can I go? If I touch her breast and she's down for me to touch her breast, cool. If I touch her lower, and she's down and she's not stopping me, cool. I'm going to kiss her or whatever. It was simply if a woman said no or pushed you away that was non-consent."
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"I think most things are pretty magical, and that it's less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice."
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"I couldn't get you to the ocean, but there was nothing stopping me bringing the ocean to you."
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"I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy."
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"What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?"
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