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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana , Philosopher
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George Santayana Quotes to Explore

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography....
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors....
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman....
Only the dead have seen the end of the war....
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity....
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different....
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling...
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness....
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there....
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it....

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We have plenty of examples from twentieth-century history where, out of fear of liberalism or Communism, religious conservatives made alliances with s...
I did 'Call of Duty Modern Warfare' as Gaz, then I did Ghost in 'Modern Warfare 2,' which has become one of the most iconic figures in the history of ...
There is a big push that we all are engaged in, in wanting to have the newest in innovation - and I think that's all really great. But I also feel tha...
I believe this generation should know their history and they should know that the struggle's not over yet....
Throughout history, cities have been associated with incredible bursts of creative energy - the Renaissance in Florence, or modernism in Paris. London...
I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, s...
There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were ...
When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of the Actor's Workshop, unti...
In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the com...
Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happe...