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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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That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.
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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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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
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Never mind your happiness do your duty.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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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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