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Will Durant Inspirational Quotes (174)

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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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Nothing is new except arrangement.
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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
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The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West it is whether men can bear to live without God.
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Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.
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Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
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History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.
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Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
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It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
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Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.
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From barbarism to civilization requires a century from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Never mind your happiness do your duty.
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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.
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The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.
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