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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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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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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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Every state begins in compulsion but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.
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