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In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
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