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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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Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.
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The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.
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The finger that turns the dial rules the air.
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An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
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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 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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