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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
George Santayana
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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
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It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
George Santayana
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To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.
George Santayana
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
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There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
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The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
George Santayana
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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
George Santayana
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