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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
Always
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Nothing
Thing
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If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.
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As knowledge grew, fear decreased men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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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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So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
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