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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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The finger that turns the dial rules the air.
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The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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 becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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