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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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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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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 word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control? – James Hillman

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I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form. – Andrew Cuomo

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The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain. – Ronald Firbank

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Were going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference. – LL Cool J

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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. – John Maynard Keynes

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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations. – Salman Rushdie

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The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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