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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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We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.
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Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.
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Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.
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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West it is whether men can bear to live without God.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.
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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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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.
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The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
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