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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.

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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
Certainty
Loses
Grows
Faith
Murderous
Tolerance

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Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
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History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.
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Love one another. My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus. You may think that's a lot of lollipop but just try it. Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you'll eventually get along.
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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