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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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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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. – George Santayana

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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience. – Ron Wyden

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I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul. – Christopher Eccleston

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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. – Patrick Henry

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