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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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Christianity did not destroy paganism it adopted it.
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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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So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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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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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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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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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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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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 health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West it is whether men can bear to live without God.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Civilization is not inherited it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.
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History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
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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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