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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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It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.
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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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Christianity did not destroy paganism it adopted it.
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If you wish to be loved, be modest if you wish to be admired, be proud if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.
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As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.
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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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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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Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.
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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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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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