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Quote by George Santayana
By natures kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a

By natures kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a mans power to answer do not occur to him at all. – George Santayana

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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. – George Santayana

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That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. – George Santayana

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Fear
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There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it. – David Hume

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Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. – Margaret Mead

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In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. – Thomas Hobbes

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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. – Jules Verne

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Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory. – Pierre Corneille

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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer…. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. – E.B. White

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When everything happens to you when youre so young, youre very lucky, but by the same token, youre never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you – your first love, your first success – the second one is never the same. – Lauren Bacall

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