Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in … - George Santayana

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I was inspired to write children's books, but without blood and gore.

George Santayana

Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.

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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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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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Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

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To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

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Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.

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