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The future never just happened. It was created.

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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
Motivational
Happened
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Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Education is the transformation of civilisation
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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From barbarism to civilization requires a century from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
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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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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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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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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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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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Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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