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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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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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Philosophy
Science
Arises
Art
Flows
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Hypothesis
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Begins
Achievement

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Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.
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In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.
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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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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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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
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Liberty is a product of order.
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If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string.
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Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.
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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.
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Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.
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Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.
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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.
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Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
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Nothing is new except arrangement.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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