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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
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Duty
Happiness
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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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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Liberty is a luxury of security the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
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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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Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
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Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.
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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.
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Civilization is not inherited it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.
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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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Liberty is a product of order.
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History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.
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Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.
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The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West it is whether men can bear to live without God.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Communism is the opiate of the people.
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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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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