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George Santayana Philosopher, Poet
Terrible

"The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape."

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Plato Philosopher
Terrible

"There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless."

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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer
Terrible

""Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly."

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Samuel Philosopher
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"There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press."

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