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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
Historian
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North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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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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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
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Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day
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The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.
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Even when repressed, inequality grows only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
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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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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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