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The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.

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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
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North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
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Love one another. My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus. You may think that's a lot of lollipop but just try it. Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you'll eventually get along.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.
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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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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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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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Education is the transformation of civilisation
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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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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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The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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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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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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The future never just happened. It was created.
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