I [heart] dead people

Ok, one in particular, today - George Santayana, who studied under Josiah Royce, who taught Walter Lippmann, and who said:

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten
your aim.
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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without
reason and imitation without benefit.
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Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that
the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.
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All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else
they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be
possible.
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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the
part of another; people are friends in spots.
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Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
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Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
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Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to
surrender it too soon or to the first comer.
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The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who
have loved it.