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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.

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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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Evil
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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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If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string.
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Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.
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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
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