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Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. – George Santayana

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The degree in which a poets imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. – George Santayana

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Imagination
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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases. – George Santayana

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Truth
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I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. – T. S. Eliot

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Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love. – Billy Corgan

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Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. – Epictetus

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Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. – Lin Yutang

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Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law. – Hubert Humphrey

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I like politics. I like traveling in the United States. – Laura Bush

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I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way. – Neale Donald Walsch

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The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe. – Louis Pasteur

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