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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
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
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Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.
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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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Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
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Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.
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It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
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