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George Santayana has 402 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be…
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A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with…
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
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Habit is stronger than reason.
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Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
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If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he…
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Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that…
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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
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Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.
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The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
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Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we…
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The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance;…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the…
— Henry Ford
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Who do I like best, men or women? I think it really depends on what for!
— Joyce Grenfell
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Does anyone know where the Best Men are? I hope they're not in the parking lot stealing our hubcaps.
— Bill O'Reilly
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Today at Pearl Harbor, veterans are gathering to pay tribute to the young men they remember who never escaped the sunken ships.…
— George W. Bush
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The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best…
— John Donne
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There is no country that has the best men.
— Alicia Machado
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
— Tacitus
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The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive
— George Santayana
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Some of my best men are women!
— William Booth
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There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her…
— Walter Savage Landor
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