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Quote by George Santayana
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so

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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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. – George Santayana

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