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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Will Durant
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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
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North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
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If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.
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As knowledge grew, fear decreased men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
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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 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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Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.
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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 soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
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If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string.
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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
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