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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 is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Nothing is new except arrangement.
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Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.
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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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Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.
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A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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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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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
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Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game
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From barbarism to civilization requires a century from civilization to barbarism needs but a 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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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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