"The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal."

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George Santayana

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“In the long run, our most deeply held desires will govern our choices, one by one and day by day, until our lives finally add up to what we have really wanted most--for good or otherwise. We can indeed have eternal life, if we really want it, so long as we don't want something else more.”
“By definition startups usually do not turn a profit.”
“But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this;-we can perceive that events are brought about, not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular ease, but by the establishment of general laws.”
“He was impolite while making a point? This is Vlad the Impaler. His points usually come at the end of a long pole.”
“History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.”
“In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.”
“Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.”

Source : Timothy Radcliffe (2005). “What is the Point of Being a Christian?”, p.114, A&C Black
“Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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