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The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
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Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
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An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
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