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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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He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. – Thomas Hobbes

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It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. – Douglas MacArthur

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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not. – Saadi

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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. – Richard Bach

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