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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

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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
Woe
Teaches
Faster
Education
Teach
Learn
Men

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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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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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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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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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In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.
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Even when repressed, inequality grows only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.
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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process
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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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As knowledge grew, fear decreased men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
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Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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