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Word: santayana (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could organize "Secret Sanford," and resurrect Redd Foxx to deliver "the big one." Or maybe "Secret Santana" would inspire revelers to croon "Black Magic Woman" to their lucky recipients of holiday cheer. "Secret Satan," however, might not go over too well with the anti-evil crowd, and "Secret Santayana" wouldn't work if people can't remember the past...

Author: By Eric R. Columbus, | Title: My Santa's No Secret | 12/11/1992 | See Source »

...people of the Balkans, it is sometimes said, have too much history for their own good. In a perverse twist on George Santayana's famous warning, they remember the past too well and therefore seem condemned to repeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: The Serbian Death Wish | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

Writers certainly have a certain prerogative to entire articles, stories and books they have written, just as inventors can patent their inventions. But what about phrases and "ideas"? Do I really have to cite George Santayana every time I point out that history can teach us lessons? Every time I point out that history tends to repeat itself? Or just every time I point out that "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Don't Shade Your Eyes! | 9/8/1991 | See Source »

...leaves painful memories of death and destruction. Yet, as George Santayana wrote, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Last week the clock ticked on for the opposing armies in the Persian Gulf, and some of the correspondents who covered Vietnam for TIME during the fighting there reflected on lessons from that conflict and how they might be applied to our coverage of the gulf crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Dec 10 1990 | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

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