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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

Will Durant

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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
Discovery
Atheism
Learning
Science
Fatal
Inquiry
Certainty
Acceptance

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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.
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If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.
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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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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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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.
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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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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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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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