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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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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
Jean Baudrillard 
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Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.
Richard J. Codey
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Joseph Addison
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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
David Herbert Lawrence
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Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.
William Graham Sumner
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I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
William Shakespeare
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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
Alexander Pope
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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
Colin PowellChuck PalahniukJean Jacques RousseauWalter BagehotWalter LippmannMarquis de SadeThomas HobbesDouglas MacArthurJean BaudrillardWilliam Graham SumnerJohn CusackCharles HodgeGoldwin SmithIgor StravinskyBenito Mussolini
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