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Education is the transmission of civilization.

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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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Educational
Civilization
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.
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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
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There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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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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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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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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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
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Christianity did not destroy paganism it adopted it.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
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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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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
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Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.
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Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.
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The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
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