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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
Often
Nothing
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
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If you wish to be loved, be modest if you wish to be admired, be proud if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.
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There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
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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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If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.
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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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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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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
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It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
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Education is the transformation of civilisation
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.
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The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
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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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Liberty is a product of order.
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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