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Some Quotes by George Santayana
- Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.
- Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection…
- Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a…
- The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy…
- The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and…
- It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by…
- Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul…
- We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge…
- There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The…
- The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy…
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- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided… — Billie Joe Armstrong
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