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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.

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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
Past
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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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Civilizations come and go they conquer the earth and crumble into dust but faith survives every desolation.
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
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So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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The finger that turns the dial rules the air.
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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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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Often your face is your autobiography
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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
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I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.
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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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Communism is the opiate of the people.
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