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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
Will Durant
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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
Philosopher
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North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
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Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.
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The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.
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Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
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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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If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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Civilizations come and go they conquer the earth and crumble into dust but faith survives every desolation.
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History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.
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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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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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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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