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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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A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud. – George Santayana

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When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different. – George Santayana

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We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. – George Santayana

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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. – Karl Marx

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With age, you get to a place where you dont want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug. – Vin Diesel

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At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. – Satyajit Ray

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No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage. – Clifford Bax (1886–1962) [Written at age 39, in 1925. —tε&#5511

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I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him. – Abraham Lincoln

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