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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
Historian
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Writer
North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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Communism is the opiate of the people.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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.
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.
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