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...Those who cannot remember the past,” warned one-time Harvard professor George Santayana, “are condemned to repeat...
...single undergraduate who was not proud of his university and its president. This kind of pride, demonstrated by the faculty in their commendations for the president and the administration, is a clue to the real spirit that is Harvard, a spirit that was summed up by the philosopher George Santayana, who near the turn of the century wrote that the undergraduate “does, except when the pressure of fear of the outside world constrains him, only when he finds worth doing for its own sake...
...Should anyone care if a country's method for dealing with its inconvenient history and unjustly disgraced leaders is to try to forget them? Are there consequences in failing to heed George Santayana's warning that those who ignore history are destined to repeat...
Alex Sanders—the South Carolina judge, humorist, and politician, and a hero of mine—likes to say that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat that damned George Santayana quote over and over again...
Another generation like the last is currently being bred at Harvard and America’s other elite institutions. Despite Kosman’s wistful warning, perhaps it would be more fitting to cite George Santayana, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat...