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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
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It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.
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So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.
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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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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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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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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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