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The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them
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Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.
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Memory itself is an internal rumour and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.
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