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Quote by George Santayana
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. – George Santayana

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That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. – George Santayana

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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. – George Santayana

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We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility. – Thomas Carlyle

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Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three oclock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap. – Barbara Jordan

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Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society. – Robert Carlyle

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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didnt do it. I sure as hell wouldnt want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. – William S. Burroughs

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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, hes fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal. – Al Stewart

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Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it as earned. – Thomas Jefferson

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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. – Hosea Ballou

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