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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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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
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We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.
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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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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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Liberty is a product of order.
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The finger that turns the dial rules the air.
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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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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
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I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.
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