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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
Will Durant
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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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The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.
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It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
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Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
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Never mind your happiness do your duty.
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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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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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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The future never just happened. It was created.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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Liberty is a product of order.
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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
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Communism is the opiate of the people.
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