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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.

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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
Fundamentalism
Paul
Triumph
Historical
Christ

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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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Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of 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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Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.
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