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A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. George Santayana

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. George Santayana

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. George Santayana- More quotations on: [Advertising]

America is a young country with an old mentality. George Santayana- More quotations on: [America]

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. George Santayana- More quotations on: [Travel]

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. George Santayana- More quotations on: [Age]

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. George Santayana

Sanity is a madness put to good use. George Santayana

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. George Santayana- More quotations on: [Science]

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. George Santayana

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. George Santayana- More quotations on: [Body]

The wisest mind has something yet to learn. George Santayana- More quotations on: [Wisdom] [Learning]

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality. George Santayana
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. George Santayana- More quotations on: [Spring]

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. George Santayana

Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together. George Santayana

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be. George Santayana, "The German Mind: A Philosophical
Diagnosis"- More quotations on: [Character] [Integrity]

The young man who has not wept is a savage,and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. George Santayana, Dialogues in Limbo (1925) ch. 3

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, Introduction

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3

Music is essentially useless, as life is. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4- More quotations on: [Music]

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4- More quotations on: [Music]

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. George Santayana, Little Essays (1920) "Ideal Immortality"

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. George Santayana, Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines"- More quotations on: [Birth] [Death]

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience. George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905- More quotations on: [The Past]

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned. George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 2

Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it. George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 4 - 28 Quotations in other collections- Search for George Santayana at Amazon.com

TUN DR MAHATHIR[edit] SourcedHistory should remember Blair and Bush as the killers of children or as the lying prime minister and president. "Bush and Blair, 'children killers'", PressTV, 09 Oct 2007. "We need an opposition to remind us if we are making mistakes. When you are not opposed you think everything you do is right. December 2005. [1]
[edit] Unsourced"Exploit us, but exploit us fairly." - Speech to business leaders at the Asia-

Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, Oct. 20, 2003.
"We (Muslims) are actually very strong. 1.3 billion people cannot be simply wiped out. The Europeans killed 6 million Jews out of 12 million. But today the Jews rule the world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them." - Oct. 16, 2003, in speech to a summit of 57 Islamic countries.

"We must not antagonise everyone. We must win their hearts and minds. We must win them to our side, not by begging for help from them, but by the honorable way that we struggle to help ourselves. We must not strengthen the enemy by pushing everyone into their camps through irresponsible and unIslamic acts." - from the same speech.

"The Sept. 11 attack on America, which supported Israel, has made an excuse for the Anglo-Saxon Europeans to return to their old violent ways. Their strategy to fight terrorism is through attacking Muslim countries and Muslims, whether they are guilty or not." - June 19, 2003, speech.

"If the innocent people who died in the attack on Afghanistan, and those who have been dying from lack of food and medical care in Iraq, are considered collaterals, are not the 3,000 who died in New York and the 200 in Bali also just collaterals, whose deaths are necessary for the operations to succeed?" - Feb. 24, 2003, speech to the Non-Aligned Movement of developing nations.

"There were times when I was elated with what I thought was my success. But mostly I feel disappointed, because I achieved too little result from my principal task, the task of making my race a race that is respected, a race that is honorable, a race that is highly regarded." - June 21, 2002, speech, three days before announcing plans to retire.

"It is good governance by good people that we need. And feudal kings, even dictators, have provided and can provide good governance." - April 26, 2002, speech.

"Armed attacks or other forms of attack against civilians must be regarded as acts of terror and the perpetrators regarded as terrorists. ... And anyone supporting them must be considered as terrorists." - April 1, 2002, speech urging Muslim leaders to include Palestinian suicide bombings in definition of terrorism.

"We may suspect that they, the Jews, have an agenda, but we do not want to accuse. And incidentally, we are Muslims, and the Jews are not happy to see the Muslims progress." - Oct. 10, 1997, speech during Asian financial crisis.

"We are told that we must open up, that trade and commerce must be totally free. Free for whom? For rogue speculators. For anarchists wanting to destroy weak countries in their crusade for open societies, to force us to submit to the dictatorship of international manipulators." - July 1997 speech.

"The Malays are spiritually inclined, tolerant and easy-going. The non-Malays, and especially the Chinese, are materialistic, aggressive and have an appetite for work. For equality to come about, it is necessary that these strikingly contrasting races adjust to each other." - 1970 book,

"The Malay Dilemma."

"I believe that the country should have a strong government but not too strong. A two-thirds majority like I enjoyed when I was prime minister is sufficient but a 90% majority is too strong." - December 2005, on his successor Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's Parliamentary majority of 92%. [2]

[edit] On BumiputrasWe have tried to tell them if you depend on subsidies, you are going to be very weak. But they don’t seem to understand. We tell them if you use crutches, you will not be able to stand up. Throw away the crutches, stand up straight because you still have the capacity. I have talked about this thing and as a doctor I know very well the meaning of crutches but somehow or rather they want the easy way out. If I get an AP and I sell it and make some money, it’s all right, they say. The great debacle was the computer labs. We tried to help as many people as possible because we were accused of giving things to only a selected few. But every one of them sold their contracts. Sold and sold and sold until finally the last man could not sell and had to do the work. He then found he would make terrible losses and so he tried to cut corners, used bad materials and the labs collapsed. They know it, they see it right before their eyes but they learn nothing. Next time they will do it again. Why is this only happening to Malay graduates and not Chinese graduates? The reason is probably the Chinese graduates choose the right subjects so they are employable. We find that the Malay graduates, especially those from the Malay stream, can’t speak English at all. No matter how much value you put on a certificate, the fact remains that an employer wants somebody with whom he can communicate. The employer is not Malay, he is a foreigner. And if he’s not going to be able to communicate with you, he will not take you. There is also attitude. There are some who start off by demanding good pay. Obviously, if you ask how much even before he has decided to take you, he won’t think you have the right attitude for the job. So there are many reasons why the Malay graduates are not being employed. I remember we got companies to hire unemployed Malay graduates and pay them RM400 each. But when they got the job, they refused to do anything because it was not their line and they didn’t want to learn. They were just marking time, waiting for the kind of job they were interested in. Obviously, these people do not have the right attitude towards work. You (the media) should do a survey. Ask them why they are unemployed; have they ever received any offer; did they make an application, did they apply only for jobs they were qualified for or for other jobs; are they prepared to accept lower pay? Some kind of survey should be carried out, then we will know the real reasons.
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A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it. Herodotus

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing. Herodotus

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. Herodotus

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods. Herodotus

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances. Herodotus

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
Herodotus

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men. Herodotus

Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. Herodotus

Force has no place where there is need of skill. Herodotus

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself. Herodotus

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. Herodotus

Great things are won by great dangers. Herodotus

He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold. Herodotus

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied. Herodotus

I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it. Herodotus

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they
gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break. Herodotus

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation,
he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. Herodotus

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own. Herodotus

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change. Herodotus

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons. Herodotus

In soft regions are born soft men. Herodotus

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than
to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. Herodotus

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing. Herodotus

It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself. Herodotus

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh. Herodotus

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate. Herodotus

Men trust their ears less than their eyes. Herodotus

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever. Herodotus

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing. Herodotus

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. Herodotus

One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end. Herodotus

Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty. Herodotus

Soft men tend to be born from soft countries. Herodotus

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. Herodotus

The destiny of man is in his own soul. Herodotus

The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes. Herodotus

The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest. Herodotus

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his
plan was a bad one nonetheless. Herodotus

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence. Herodotus

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. Herodotus

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing. Herodotus

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob. Herodotus

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing. Herodotus

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. Herodotus

Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back. Herodotus

When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers. Herodotus