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Quote: “Those who do not remember history are condemned to repeat it.”    What he actually said: In “Life of Reason,” Santayana wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The differences are more than just subtle, because “history” implies a fixed set of events while “the past” refers to all of history. Happy Names, George Santayana, Poetry Foundation, All Souls, Book Release, Poets, Free Apps, Audio Books, Around The Worlds

Listverse has published a couple of fine lists on misquotes from Shakespeare, movies and other subjects. What follows is a list of 15 of the more notable political and military misquotes. Sources I used were some books from my shelves, Snopes.com, the New York Times and good ol’ Google. Quote numbers 15-11 are usually attributed

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George Santayana-philosopher, essayist, poet, novelist. Lifelong Spanish citizen, was raised & educated in the US; identified himself as American, although he always kept a validated Spanish passport. "My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe & denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests." Spanish Passport, English Poster, English Posters, George Santayana, Explore Quotes, Essayist, Thomas Jefferson, Follow Jesus, More Than Words

George Santayana-philosopher, essayist, poet, novelist. Lifelong Spanish citizen, was raised & educated in the US; identified himself as American, although he always kept a validated Spanish passport. "My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe & denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests."

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