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George Santayana Quotes

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

George Santayana

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: spanish
Birth: December 16, 1863 - September 26, 1952

Topics

Man Simplicity Spirit Been Foe

Who walks around proud of things they've done? That's an obnoxious quality.

Jesse Eisenberg

Quality Proud Done Things Who Walks

Be honest about how you approach failure. Don't just be critical of yourself, because that can be self-serving. Approach it honestly, assess your performance, and assess the areas where you have fallen short. Correct them and move on. Don't dwell on it. Don't hold on to it.

Failure Yourself Performance Short

Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.

Today Justice Peace Fight Value

At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.

Love Time Men War Canada Young

I don't interest myself that much.

Trisha Yearwood

Myself Interest Much

Questions don't easily die within me until they're answered, and so being able to write a song and put words to complex feelings is part of my process of understanding and letting go of things.

Words Me Song Process Die Questions

2014 wasn't my finest year. I was a bit inconsistent. I did too much training and got a bit overtired. It's the way I am, and sometimes I overtrain.

Jonathan Brownlee

Training I Am Year Too Much Way Got

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.

Luck Walking Body Island Personal

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

American Human Democrat

A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child's becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.

Happy Child Being Happy Young Lead

I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, without the customary narrative and episodic quality that music normally has. I called this 'ambient music.' But at the same time I was trying to make visual art become more like music, in that it changed the way that music changes.

Music Time Art Quality Environmental

Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.

Expectations Better You Others More

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