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by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them
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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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Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Education is the transformation of civilisation
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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
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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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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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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
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We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.
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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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From barbarism to civilization requires a century from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
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