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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
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Nature
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Unequal
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Equality
Independence

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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.
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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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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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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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Christianity did not destroy paganism it adopted it.
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Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
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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 great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
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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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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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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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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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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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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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