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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

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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
Liberty
Wisdom
Understanding
Knowledge
Power

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So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
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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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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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The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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Often your face is your autobiography
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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
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Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.
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by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them
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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
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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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History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.
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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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