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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
Philosopher
Writer
North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
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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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There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
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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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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
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Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.
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Often your face is your autobiography
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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process
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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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So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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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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