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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

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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
Cultural
Activity
Civilization
Freedom
Order
Promoting

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Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
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In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.
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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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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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If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string.
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Liberty is a product of order.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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