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The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.

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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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Nations

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We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.
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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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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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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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The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.
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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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The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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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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Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.
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Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.
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Often your face is your autobiography
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Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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