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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

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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
Anarchy
Complete
Soon
Liberty
Dies

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As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.
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In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.
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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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There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
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There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.
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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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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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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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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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