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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
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North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
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The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.
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The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
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India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
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Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
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War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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