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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
Evil
Lost
Ends
Nothing
Every
Event
Good
Effects
Events
Forever

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Never mind your happiness do your duty.
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As knowledge grew, fear decreased men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
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Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
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Liberty is a product of order.
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Liberty is a luxury of security the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
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It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
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So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
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Science tells us how to heal and how to kill it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.
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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
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History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
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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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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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Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
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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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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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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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