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Quote by George Santayana
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age. – George Santayana

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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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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. – George Santayana

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design
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It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. – George Santayana

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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of mans adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance. – E. B. White

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We try to achieve beauty by covering up all traces of age and end up looking like we tried to achieve youth by covering up all traces of beauty. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Im not skinny for the wrong reasons. Its not because Im bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, Im actually overweight. – Lindsay Lohan

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Instead of bewailing a lost youth, a man nowadays begins to wonder, when he reaches my ripe age of forty-two, if ever his past will subside and be comfortably by-gone. – D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930)

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I am thankful that geniuses and artists and good people, no matter how hard it is, will eventually be recognized. I am doubly thankful that also goes for idiots. – Elayne Boosler

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