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Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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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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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
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Christianity did not destroy paganism it adopted it.
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Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.
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If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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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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Never mind your happiness do your duty.
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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Every state begins in compulsion but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.
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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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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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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.
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