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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
William James Will Durant
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process
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The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
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