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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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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
Greatest
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Facts
Never
Squandering
Amazed
Exist

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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.
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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
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The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.
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The finger that turns the dial rules the air.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.
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Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day
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Civilization is not inherited it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.
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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
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Liberty is a luxury of security the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.
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