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In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.

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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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Based
Civilization
Food
Lasts
Last
Upon
Supply

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As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.
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An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.
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Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.
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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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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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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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