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Jos� Ortega y Gasset
Spain
9 May 1883 // 18 Oct 1955
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On Revolution:
A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation
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On Civilization:
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort
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On Comprehension:
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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