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George Santayana Quotes

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

George Santayana

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Feast Spectacle Predicament

To be outspoken, or different at all, is a problem for women.

Women Problem Different Outspoken

There's more outrage on Twitter about a One Direction split or about what one band member said to another than there is about institutionalized racism and something huge.

Racism Direction Said More Band

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

Life Pressure Easy Quit Admire Way

I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.

Jose Manuel Barroso

Respect Influence More Switzerland

My house was a place where there was no difference between being a boy or a girl.

Girl House Place Boy Difference

All we can do in life is push through the things that make us afraid and try to be better.

Life Better Push Try Afraid Through

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

Teacher Child Him Everything Painful

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her.

Mother Community People Think Never

I was a pedantic child. I'd get really annoyed at the logic of small things that don't bother anyone else.

Small Things Child Small Logic Get

One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

Become Responsible Always Cost Aware

We shouldn't need riot police at schools.

Police Need Riot Schools

We don't want to keep secrets anymore.

Secrets Want Keep Anymore

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