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" To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired. "
George Santayana
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" For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. "
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" The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others. "
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" The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk. "
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" Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. "
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" The family is one of nature's masterpieces. "
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" Wisdom comes by disillusionment. "
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" We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. "
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" The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. "
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" The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. "
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" Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. "
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" Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts. "
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" Only the dead have seen the end of the war. "
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" Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. "
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" The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism. "
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" Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. "
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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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" 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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" It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well. "
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" The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool. "
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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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" The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character. "
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" Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. "
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