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Will Durant
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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
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North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Christianity did not destroy paganism it adopted it.
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Liberty is a luxury of security the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
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Communism is the opiate of the people.
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So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
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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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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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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 have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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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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Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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