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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

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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
Free
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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 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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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 most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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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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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
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