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Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.

— George Santayana

What It Means

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George Santayana

About George Santayana

Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known in English as George Santayana (16 December 1863 in Madrid, Spain – 26 September 1952 in Rome, Italy) was a Spanish-American philosopher, essayist, poet and novelist.