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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Will Durant
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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
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The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
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by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them
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As knowledge grew, fear decreased men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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