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George Santayana Quotes: To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.
         

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.


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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.



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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.



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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.



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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.



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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.



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Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.



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Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.



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Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.



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The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.





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My prayer today is that we will feel the loving arms of God wrapped around us, and will know in our hearts that He will never forsake us as we trust in Him.



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Whenever you have to come to my house and convince me to leave my home and play football, deep down in my heart I really don't want to play, but I really don't want to let you down.



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I tell you there is one thing that draws above everything else in this world, and that is love.



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I might become an ascetic, live in India. A little rice is about the best I can do now.



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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.



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There is much to do, and I am busy, very busy.



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Maybe the reason some folks lag behind in our free enterprise system is because they depend too much on the free part and not enough on their own enterprise.




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