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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
Triumph
Historical
Christ
Fundamentalism
Paul

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Even when repressed, inequality grows only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.
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Education is the transformation of civilisation
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The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.
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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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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.
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The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.
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The finger that turns the dial rules the air.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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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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So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.
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Liberty is a luxury of security the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard
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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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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths
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