George Santayana

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To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.

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