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" Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. "

George Santayana

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" The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany. "

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" America is a young country with an old mentality. "

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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. "

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" A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud. "

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" Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. "

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