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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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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
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North Adams
Massachusetts
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Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
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Education is the transformation of civilisation
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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 finger that turns the dial rules the air.
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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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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.
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Often your face is your autobiography
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Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.
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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
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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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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Time sanctifies everything even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.
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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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