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The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.

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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
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North Adams
Massachusetts
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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
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Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard
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Time sanctifies everything even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.
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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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As knowledge grew, fear decreased men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Liberty is a luxury of security the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
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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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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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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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It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
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