"Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction."

Fromm, Erich on greed
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"There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction."

Dali, Salvador on contentment
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"The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise."

Cervantes, Miguel De on hope
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"Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln."

Barton, Bruce on hope
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"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."

Santayana, George on advertising
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"Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself."

Santayana, George on dignity
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"Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand."

Santayana, George on dignity
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"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."

Santayana, George on education
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"Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end."

Santayana, George on emotions   

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"The highest form of vanity is love of fame."

Santayana, George on fame   

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"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."

Santayana, George on family
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"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim."

Santayana, George on fanatics and fanaticism
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"Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit."

Santayana, George on fashion   

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"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."

Santayana, George on fun
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"America is a young country with an old mentality."

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"Habit is stronger than reason."

Santayana, George on habit
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"Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness."

Santayana, George on happiness
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"History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten."

Santayana, George on history and historians
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"The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others."

Santayana, George on institutions   

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"Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it."

Santayana, George on intolerance
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"Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace."

Santayana, George on knowledge   

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

Santayana, George on life   

"When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different."

Santayana, George on women
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"Music is essentially useless, as life is."

Santayana, George on music
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"Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited."

Santayana, George on nonsense
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"Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."

Sun Tzu on persuasion
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"When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce."

Sun Tzu on diplomacy
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"The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim."

Sun Tzu on decisions
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"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

Confucius on beauty
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"It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral."

Bacon, Francis on politics
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"The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take."

Anderson, John B. on politics   

"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other."

Ameringer, Oscar on politics
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"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

Niebuhr, Reinhold on change
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"Music is only love looking for words."

Durrell, Lawrence on music
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"All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye."

Pope, Alexander on prejudice
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"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well."

London, Jack on circumstance
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"If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a good man."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on laughter
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"The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away."

Cowper, William on hope
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"Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on faults
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"The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on adversity
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