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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
Amazed
Exist
Greatest
Fact
Facts
Never
Squandering

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Even when repressed, inequality grows only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.
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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
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If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.
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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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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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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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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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Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.
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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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Science tells us how to heal and how to kill it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.
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