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Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.
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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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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Civilizations come and go they conquer the earth and crumble into dust but faith survives every desolation.
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If you wish to be loved, be modest if you wish to be admired, be proud if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.
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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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The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.
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The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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The finger that turns the dial rules the air.
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Christianity did not destroy paganism it adopted it.
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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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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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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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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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Nothing is new except arrangement.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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