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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
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Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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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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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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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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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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