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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
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
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Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Even when repressed, inequality grows only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.
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Christianity did not destroy paganism it adopted it.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.
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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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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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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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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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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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