"Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited."

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Source : George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.153, Courier Corporation

George Santayana

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“Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.”

Source : Speech Accepting the Republican Presidential Nomination, delivered 16 July 1964, San Francisco
“The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be decisive.”
“It is the way of grace. People do not merit salvation but receive it as a free gift from God on the basis of what Christ's death accomplished.”
“One of the reasons I always come back to representations of loneliness in plays, films, and literature is that they give us specific examples of the powerful hold that it has on us, and yet, paradoxically, by representing what can't really be represented, so to speak, they give us ways of going forward even as we fall apart.”
“Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism.”
“What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.”
“Bush made a point of emphasizing to me that unlike his father's administration, his was one of significant "walk-in access" to the Oval Office.”

Source : "Books: 'Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush'". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. September 11, 2007.
“If the federal government has the exclusive right to judge the extent of its own powers, warned the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions' authors (James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, respectively), it will continue to grow - regardless of elections, the separation of powers, and other much-touted limits on government power.”

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