Quote by George Santayana
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory chil

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. – 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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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome. – George Santayana

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Inferiority
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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace. – George Santayana

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together. – Barbara de Angelis

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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. – Albert Camus

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My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights. – Bruce Springsteen

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There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past. – Umberto Eco

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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out. – William Tecumseh Sherman

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Photography is more about money now but then so are most things. – David Bailey

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There is still no cure for the common birthday. – John Glenn

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Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didnt have it and thought of other things if you did. – James A. Baldwin

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