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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
Philosopher
Writer
North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
Art
Nothing
Diplomats
Diplomacy
Speaking
Communication
Especially
Half

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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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Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.
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That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.
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Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
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Education is the transformation of civilisation
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Every state begins in compulsion but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.
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Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
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In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.
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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
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