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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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North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
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Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game
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Love one another. My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus. You may think that's a lot of lollipop but just try it. Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you'll eventually get along.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
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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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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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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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Liberty is a luxury of security the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.
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