"When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different."
-George Santayana
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"Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different."
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"The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy."
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"Wisdom comes by disillusionment."
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"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it."
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"To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman."
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"If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society."
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"For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats."
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"There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations."
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"This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?"
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"What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history."
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