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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

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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
Desert
Ignorance
Knowledge
Receding
Mirage
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An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.
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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.
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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.
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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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The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.
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History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
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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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