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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.

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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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Nothing
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by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them
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Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game
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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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The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
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History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
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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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Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.
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In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
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Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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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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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths
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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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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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