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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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Civilization
Teaching
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Education

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From barbarism to civilization requires a century from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.
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History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard
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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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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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