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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
Will Durant
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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
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North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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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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The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths
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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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The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.
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The finger that turns the dial rules the air.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.
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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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