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America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.

America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.

George Santayana
Opportunity, America, Influence
George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2001). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.423, MIT Press

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

George Santayana
Hate, Opportunity, Men
George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.90, MIT Press

Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.

George Santayana
Inspirational, Opportunity, Imagination
George Santayana (1986). “The Works of George Santayana”

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