George Santayana Quotes
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.
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I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
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When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
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I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.
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The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.
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You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.
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I used to get up at five in the morning and play cricket.
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I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
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I am not gonna say that a guy's looks make him have to try harder in any way. I don't believe that at all. I think if he is funny, smart and cool, he's all set. Looks are not very important to me.
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Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land.
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I'm very happy and very excited when my adrenalin is going.
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Water's about everything. And when the federal government controls water, it controls everything - that's the problem.
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The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.
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You know what offends me? Offended people. In a country with guaranteed rights to freedom of religion, its citizens are constantly trying to make faith in public spheres illegal, I am offended by that contradiction and want to talk about it as a comic.
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In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.
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Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.
