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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

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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
Liberty
Law
Free
Men
Recognized
Subject
Atheism
Became
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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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As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.
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Never mind your happiness do your duty.
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A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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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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Christianity did not destroy paganism it adopted it.
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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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We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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