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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
Will Durant
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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
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North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
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Communism is the opiate of the people.
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Love one another. My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus. You may think that's a lot of lollipop but just try it. Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you'll eventually get along.
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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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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.
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Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.
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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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History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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Nothing is new except arrangement.
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Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.
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Time sanctifies everything even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.
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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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The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
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