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George Santayana

"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."

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"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."

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"The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved."

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"The achievement of the goal is only a stepping-stone to the next, bigger and better goal. It never stops."

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"Greatness is achieved when you fulfil your purpose by doing what you were born to do."

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"All worthwhile endeavours begin in your thoughts, and focusing your thoughts appropriately will increase your chances of success."

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"Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo The Last Puritan and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure."
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