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Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
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Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia it is by no means a representative of reason.
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With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.
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Spirit itself is not human it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?
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Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.
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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
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