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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
Soon
Liberty
Dies
Anarchy
Complete

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Every state begins in compulsion but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.
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That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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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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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.
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