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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
Nothing
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Event
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Effects
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Evil
Lost
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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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Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.
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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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Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.
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History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.
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Often your face is your autobiography
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Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.
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