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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
Thomas Hobbes
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
Walter Lippmann
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
Walter Anderson
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
Igor Stravinsky
I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.
Edward Zwick
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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
Thomas Hobbes 
77% of people like this quote
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
Walter Lippmann
61% of people like this quote
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
Walter Anderson
60% of people like this quote
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
Igor Stravinsky
59% of people like this quote
I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.
Edward Zwick
59% of people like this quote
The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.
Franz Kafka
57% of people like this quote
If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.
Goldwin Smith
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Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
Jean Piaget
56% of people like this quote
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George Bernard ShawWilliam ShakespeareThomas JeffersonOrison Swett MardenGeorge SantayanaAlexander PopeDavid Herbert LawrenceMichel de MontaigneRobert Louis StevensonElbert HubbardArthur SchopenhauerJoseph AddisonFranz Kafka StingDavid Hume
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