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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
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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Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
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Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
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History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
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Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
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The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
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The finger that turns the dial rules the air.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.
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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 seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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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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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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It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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