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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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North Adams
Massachusetts
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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.
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Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.
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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.
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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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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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Civilization is not inherited it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.
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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
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