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• If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us, let it be the measure of our virtue that we know this and seek no comfort.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Men, Comfort, World

  J. Robert Oppenheimer (2013). “Uncommon Sense”, p.87, Springer Science & Business Media

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• It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.

  Julius Caesar

  Suffering, Apprehension

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• The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.

  Charles Peguy

  Honesty, Men, Infidelity

  "Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry" by Charles Peguy, translated by Ann and Julien Green, (p. 51), 1943.

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• The scandalous question that hangs over modern government and excites perpetual outrage is about political money and what it buys. What exactly do these contributors get in return for the hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars they funnel to the politicians?

  William Greider

  Government, Political, Dollars

  William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Many billions of years will elapse before the smallest, youngest stars complete their nuclear burning and shrink into white dwarfs. But with slow, agonizing finality perpetual night will surely fall.

  Paul Davies

  Stars, Fall, Night

  Paul Davies (2008). “The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe”, p.50, Basic Books

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• You have never by a word or a deed given me one moment's uneasiness; on the contrary I have felt perpetual gratitude to heaven forhaving given me, in you, a source of so much pure and unmixed happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Family, Happiness, Gratitude

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.166, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ignorance, Judgment, Imagine

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.374, Stanford University Press

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• There is a concerted effort to keep you and me, you know, the people, away from what it [war] really looks like, 'cause when you're selling war, when it's such a big industry. What they don't tell you is the rest of it and the down side of it. And so obviously there is a lot of money and a lot of time and effort being spent on that campaign "perpetual war for perpetual peace".

  Henry Rollins

  War, People, Effort

  "Hard Travelin' With Henry Rollins: An Exclusive Interview". Interview with Jason Leopold, www.truth-out.org. August 27, 2012.

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• The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Age, Max

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.43, Wordsworth Editions

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• People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.

  Terence McKenna

  People, Neurosis, Existential

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• You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.

  Sue Grafton

  Change, Sympathy, Baby

  Sue Grafton (2007). “T is for Trespass: A Kinsey Millhone Novel”, p.94, Penguin

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• Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.

  Alice Sebold

  Yesterday, Life Is

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

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• I’m telling you right now I could make him pop an aneurysm and no one would know. (Nero) Doesn’t that kind of murder bother you at all? (Alix) Given everything people have done to me in my life, little girl, especially in my childhood when I was helpless against them, humanity is lucky I’m not on a perpetual killing spree. As for the Merjacks…I owe them a debt that no amount of violence on my part will settle. So, no. Nothing about killing him would bother me. (Nero)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, People, Childhood

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• FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's, Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!

  Christopher Marlowe

  Cutting, Night, Blood

  Christopher Marlowe (1994). “Dr. Faustus”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• It had been boldly predicted by some of the early Christians that the conversion of the world would lead to the establishment of perpetual peace. In looking back, with our present experience, we are driven to the melancholy conclusion that, instead of diminishing the number of wars, ecclesiastical influence has actually and very seriously increased it.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Christian, Religious, War

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• There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Mind, Tranquility

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.36, Hackett Publishing

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• The dominant trance of the planet is that we live in a perpetual sense of lack, a perpetual sense of, "If only I could make this small tweak, then I would feel okay." And, of course, none of the tweaks ever work in the long term.

  Arjuna Ardagh

  Long, Planets, Trance

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• People who have a conservative viewpoint both religiously and politically and they fear that the world is going to be thrown into perpetual communism.

  Immortal Technique

  People, Viewpoints, World

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Your partner cannot fault you for refusing to host a perpetual-motion party or for the fact that you must sleep and will eventually die.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Party, Sleep, Faults

  "Do It for the Kids". Chat live with readers, www.slate.com. December 21, 2015.

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• The sun is all love and murder, judgement, the perpetual raid of conscience, paratrooping light which opens like a snow-blossom in the downward drift of death. Wherever I turn - the golden cymbals of judgement, the summoning of the torturers of light.

  Janet Frame

  Light, Snow, Judgement

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• Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this country have trained the remaining 99.9 percent—as strong, as talented, as inteligent in every way—to exist in perpetual servitude; a servitude so strong that you can put the key of his emancipation in a man's hands and he will throw it back at you with a curse.

  Aravind Adiga

  Country, Strong, Men

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.105, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• She would stay on the road and in hiding, a balloon floating through the sky, eating up hundreds of miles a day with a help of the perpetual tailwind.

  John Green

  Sky, Floating, Balloons

  "Paper Towns". Book by John Green, October 16, 2008.

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• In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Strong, Soul And Body

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to the ambiguity of potentiality (which is always potentiality to do and not to do) — this is the perpetual illusion of morality.

  Giorgio Agamben

  Believe, Decision, Morality

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• It’s the leftover humans. The survivors. They’re the ones I can’t stand to look at, although on many occasions I still fail. I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair, and surprises. They have punctured hearts. They have beaten lungs. Which in turn brings me to the subject I am telling you about tonight, or today, or whatever the hour and color. It’s the story of one of those perpetual survivors –an expert at being left behind.

  Markus Zusak

  Heart, Jigsaw Puzzles, Color

  "The Book Thief". Book by Markus Zusak, 2007.

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