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Quote by Thomas Hobbes
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we

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

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The disembodied spirit is immortal there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns. – Thomas Hobbes

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Death
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The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. – Thomas Hobbes

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War
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The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them. – Thomas Hobbes

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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. – Francis Bacon

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I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. Its just a fear of not knowing what women have thats so powerful. Its this shield they put up to try to get closer. – K. D. Lang

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I talk to womens groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her. – Olympia Dukakis

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Fear

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost. – Chauncey Depew

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Stone walls confine a tinker cold iron binds a witch but a musicians music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind. – Charles de Lint

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I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash. – Anthony Hopkins

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The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility. – Martin Heidegger

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