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Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant
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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
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North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
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The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
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Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths
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Nothing is new except arrangement.
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Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.
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Often your face is your autobiography
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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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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Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.
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It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
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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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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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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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