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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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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
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.
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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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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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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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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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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
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Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.
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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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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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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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