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Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. ↗

— George Santayana

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Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better. ↗

— George Santayana

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That no-hitter stuff was a long time ago; I don't think that has anything to do with it. I'm just going through a tough time. ↗

— Johan Santana

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We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. ↗

— George Santayana

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Depression is rage spread thin. ↗

— George Santayana

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Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end. ↗

— George Santayana

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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. ↗

— George Santayana

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All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. ↗

— George Santayana

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Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different. ↗

— George Santayana

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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. ↗

— George Santayana

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