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• Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
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• Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
  -- George Santayana...
• Sanity is a madness put to good use. -- George Santayana
• Common sense is not so common. -- Voltaire
• A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. -- George Santayana (1863-1952)
• Miracles are so called because they excite wonder. In unphilosophical minds, any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.
  -- George Santayana...
• A man of great common sense and good taste, -- meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
  -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), "Notes. Julius Caesa...
• Men have fiendishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell only to find it ridiculous.
  -- George Santayana...
• The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.
  -- George Santayana...