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George Santayana
"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned"
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"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."
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"Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway"
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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."
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America American Philosopher
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"The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape."
George Santayana
American Philosopher

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"The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer."
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American Philosopher
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"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds."
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American Philosopher Chaos
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"The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger"
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Christian
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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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American Philosopher Events
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"Habit is stronger than reason"
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Habit
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"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity"
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Imagination
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"The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing."
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Skepticism
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"The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others."
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American Philosopher
George Santayana
"The highest form of vanity is love of fame."
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American Philosopher Fame
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"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."
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American Philosopher Love
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"Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace."
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American Philosopher
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"England is not the best possible world but it is the best actual country, and a great rest after America"
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America

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