George Santayana

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“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“If you want money more than anything, you’ll be bought and sold your whole life.” — ​Rumi

“There’s a fine line between heroic persistence and foolish stubbornness. Sometimes the best kind of grit is gritting our teeth and turning around.” — ​Adam M. Grant

“Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.” — ​George Santayana

“Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there’s nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.” — ​George Horace Lorimer

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20201104

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool.” — Pope Pius II

“I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.” — Pearl S. Buck

“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness…. When experience is not retained, as among less advanced civilizations, infancy is perpetual [ed].” — George Santayana

“What shall we call our son so he does not get bullied at school? … We shall call him Englebert Humperdink… yes, that’ll work.” — Eddie Izzard

 

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“The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.” — Fred Rogers

“For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.” — George Santayana

“You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge. Apologize for mistakes. Apologize for unintentionally hurting someone – profusely. But don’t apologize for being who you are.” — Danielle LaPorte

“[A formula for answering controversial letters — without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.” — Henry Louis Mencken

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20170822

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“Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it.” — English Proverb

“And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.” — William Shakespeare, “King Henry VI Part III”

“Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes.” — George Santayana

“They liked their gossip strong and highly flavored, like their tea.” — Louisa May Alcott

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20170307

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“Love builds highways out of dead ends.” — Louis Gittner

“An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.” — George Santayana

“If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?” — Margot Fonteyn

“There are people who have money and people who are rich.” — Coco Chanel

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160215

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“Life is full of obstacle illusions.” — Grant Frazier

“Anybody can be decisive during a panic; it takes a strong man to act during a boom.” — V. S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River

“Sometimes you need to talk to a three year old so you can understand life again.” — Unknown

“Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.” — George Santayana

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20150323

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“The soul is the voice of the body’s interests.” — George Santayana

“If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?” — Dolores Huerta

“No partner in a love relationship… should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.” — May Sarton

“I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce.” — Terry Pratchett