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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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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
Frank Norris 
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
Douglas MacArthur
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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
Thomas Jefferson
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Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
Theophile Gautier
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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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The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.
Henry Clay
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This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
David Hume
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A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
Jeremy Taylor
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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw
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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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