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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

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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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Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.
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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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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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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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Science tells us how to heal and how to kill it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.
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History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.
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We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.
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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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We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.
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Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.
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The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
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History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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