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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

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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
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Civilization
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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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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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If you wish to be loved, be modest if you wish to be admired, be proud if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.
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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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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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The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.
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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
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Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
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Civilization is not inherited it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.
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Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.
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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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Christianity did not destroy paganism it adopted it.
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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Drunkenness was in good repute in England till Bloody Mary frowned upon it it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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