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“Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas, the heart hardens as the blood ceases to run. The cold snow strikes down from the head, and checks the glow of feeling. Who wants to survive into old age after abdicating all his faculties one by one, and be sans teeth, sans eyes, sans memory, sans hope, sans sympathy?”

Source: The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

“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.”

“Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments.”

Art Dies Literature Memories Effort Air Color Broken Cease Painter Fades Canvas Fragments Marble Pedestal Oratory Art Music

Book:A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard

“If a man loves a woman for her beauty, does he love her? No; for the smallpox, which destroys her beauty without killing her, causes his love to cease. And if any one loves me for my judgment or my memory, does he really love me? No; for I can lose these qualities without ceasing to be.”

Ifs Men Love Doe I Can Causes Loses Memories Quality Judgment Killing Cease His Love One Love Her Beauty Smallpox

Book:Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

Source: Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

“In the name of Jerusalem. If I forget the extermination of the Jews, may my right hand wither, may my tongue stick to my palate if I cease to think of you, if I do not keep the extermination of the Jews in memory even at my happiest hour.”

Ifs Thinking May Hands Names Hours Memories Forget Sticks Jew Tongue Cease Think Of You Jerusalem Palate Extermination

Author:Menachem Begin

“When you believe yourself to be a person, you see persons everywhere. In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realisation the person ceases.”

Believe Persons Moments Reality Memories Habit Cease Believe In Yourself Thread Believe In Me Realisation

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories.”

Thinking Would Be Running Difficult Memories Brain Consciousness Computer Program Cease Turned Off Neural Networks

Author:Stephen Hawking