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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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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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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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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
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The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.
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It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
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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 ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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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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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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