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Never mind your happiness do your duty.

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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
Duty
Happiness
Action
Mind
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The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.
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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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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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Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.
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The future never just happened. It was created.
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Christianity did not destroy paganism it adopted it.
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Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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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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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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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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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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