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Oaths are the fossils of piety. - George Santayana

Oaths are the fossils of piety. – George Santayana

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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. – George Santayana

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Science
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Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions. – George Santayana

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Conformity
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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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Promise is most given when the least is said. – George Chapman

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Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits. – William Shakespeare

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Promises

We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. РFran̤ois VI de la Rochefoucault

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He loses his thanks who promises and delays. – Proverb

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Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency. – Robert Caro

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Who can tell the dancer from the dance? – William Butler Yeats

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