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#1

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom

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#2

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom

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#3

“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”
― Cornel West

tags: justice, love, society, wisdom

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#4

“You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.”
― Cornel West

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#5

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

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#6

“Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: inspirational-faith

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#7

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

tags: inspirational

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#8

“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. --George Santyana”
― Richie Swanson

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#9

“Sanity is a madness put to good uses.”
― George Santayana , The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings

tags: madness, sanity

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#10

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana)

I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

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#11

“The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.”
― George Santayana

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#12

“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”
― George Santayana

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#13

“To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”
― George Santayana

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#14

“Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.”
― George Santayana

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#15

“Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.”
― George Santayana

tags: nature

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#16

“Memory... is an internal rumor.”
― George Santayana

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#17

“We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.”
― George Santayana

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#18

“Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.”
― George Santayana

tags: fiction, personal-growth, philosophy, self-esteem, self-help

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#19

“Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.”
― George Santayana

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#20

“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”
― George Santayana

tags: life-and-death

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#21

“love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.”
― George Santayana

tags: humor, philosophy

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#22

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”
― George Santayana

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#23

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
― George Santayana, Soliloquies in England & Later Soliloquies

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#24

“The bible is literature, not dogma.”
― George Santayana

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#25

“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten”
― George Santayana

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#26

“The worship of power is an old religion.”
― George Santayana

tags: power, religion, wisdom

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#27

“To know your future you must know your past”
― George Santayana

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#28

“Criticism surprises the soul in the arms of convention.”
― George Santayana

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#29

“The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about. Athletics don’t make anybody long-lived or useful.”
― George Santayana

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#30

“Depression is rage spread thin.”
― George Santayana

tags: anger, depression

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