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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
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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 we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.
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I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.
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As knowledge grew, fear decreased men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
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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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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
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Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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Drunkenness was in good repute in England till Bloody Mary frowned upon it it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.
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Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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