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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

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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
Equality
Independence
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Nature
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Unequal
Declaration
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Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.
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The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.
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It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
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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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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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War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
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Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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Communism is the opiate of the people.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard
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The future never just happened. It was created.
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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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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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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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The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
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