"One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live."

-- Nik Wallenda

#Family Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Years Quotes

“Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on.”
“Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.”
“I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.”
“Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.”

Source : George Santayana (1970). “Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe”, p.19, Library of Alexandria
“The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.”
“...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours. It may be very natural to have this loyalty to our own species, but let us hear no more from the naturalists about the "sentimentality" of anti-vivisectionists. If loyalty to our own species - preference for man simply because we are men - is not sentiment, then what is?”
“I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.”
“In the only way that pain can be truly remembered, through a new pain.”

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