"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned"
Source: 1913 Winds of Doctrine,'Modernism and Christianity'.
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George Santayana
Philosopher, Poet
George Santayana was a philosopher and poet known for his insights on memory and truth, particularly in 'The Life of Reason'.
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