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The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. ↗

— George Santayana

#foe #man #simplicity #sophistication #spirit

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. ↗

— George Santayana

#experience #into #like #meanings #shell

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. ↗

— George Santayana

#contradiction #every #itself #mockery #moment

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. ↗

— George Santayana

#conventions #courtesy #doubts #far #kind

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. ↗

— George Santayana

#arrogant #blood #cocked #deep #delight

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful. ↗

— George Santayana

#always #another #create #equally #form

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. ↗

— George Santayana

#military #more #religion #rhetorical #than

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves. ↗

— Rick Santelli

#benjamin franklin #country #doing #fathers #founding

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#blood #enough #give #i #i am

Challenging leaders is as American as it gets. ↗

— Rick Santelli

#challenging #gets #leaders