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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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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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Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Liberty is a product of order.
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Time sanctifies everything even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.
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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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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 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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.
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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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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
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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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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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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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Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day
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