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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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An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.
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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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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them
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