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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
Philosopher
Writer
North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
Pilot
Pilots
Education
Knowledge
Eye
Desire
Become
Soul

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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
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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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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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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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From barbarism to civilization requires a century from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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The future never just happened. It was created.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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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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Civilizations come and go they conquer the earth and crumble into dust but faith survives every desolation.
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Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.
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If you wish to be loved, be modest if you wish to be admired, be proud if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.
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So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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