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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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History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
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If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.
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As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.
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That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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From barbarism to civilization requires a century from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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