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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
Fact
Facts
Never
Squandering
Amazed
Exist

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The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.
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War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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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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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
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We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string.
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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Nothing is new except arrangement.
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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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Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
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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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