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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.

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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
Guessing
Mostly
Prejudice
Rest
History

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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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Drunkenness was in good repute in England till Bloody Mary frowned upon it it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Even when repressed, inequality grows only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.
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The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.
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Education is the transformation of civilisation
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The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.
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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
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Often your face is your autobiography
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.
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It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
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India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.
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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 Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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