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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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Swift
Aviation

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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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The future never just happened. It was created.
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It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.
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Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.
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Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.
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Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
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In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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From barbarism to civilization requires a century from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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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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