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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
Order
Promoting
Cultural
Activity
Civilization
Freedom

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Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
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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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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
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Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths
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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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We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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The finger that turns the dial rules the air.
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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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Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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