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History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.

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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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Drunkenness was in good repute in England till Bloody Mary frowned upon it it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.
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So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.
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Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard
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Education is the transformation of civilisation
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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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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Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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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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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.
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