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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
Free
Men
Recognized
Subject
Atheism
Became
Subjects
Liberty
Law

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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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The future never just happened. It was created.
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Drunkenness was in good repute in England till Bloody Mary frowned upon it it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.
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There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
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Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.
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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West it is whether men can bear to live without God.
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History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.
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A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
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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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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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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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Time sanctifies everything even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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