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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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The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day
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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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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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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string.
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
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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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