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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.

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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
Liberty
Economy
Wisdom
Politics
Destroys
Order
Liberalism
Destroy
Hunger
Destruction

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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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