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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Every state begins in compulsion but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard
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The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.
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Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.
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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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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them
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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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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
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Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game
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