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There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

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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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Science tells us how to heal and how to kill it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.
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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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Love one another. My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus. You may think that's a lot of lollipop but just try it. Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you'll eventually get along.
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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
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From barbarism to civilization requires a century from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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The future never just happened. It was created.
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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Liberty is a product of order.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
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Communism is the opiate of the people.
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The finger that turns the dial rules the air.
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Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects 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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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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