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Letter "G" » George Santayana Quotes
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«Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
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supersede, superseded, supersedes
«Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.»
«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.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
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decline, personal liberty, walk about
«It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.»
«Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.»
«Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.»
«Those who disregard the past are bound to repeat it.»
«The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.The Life of Reason, 1905-1906»
«A country without a memory is a country of madmen.»
«Those who cannot remember the past,»
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