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Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.

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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
Explain
Done
Things
Men
Wherever
Arise

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If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.
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Liberty is a product of order.
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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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Every state begins in compulsion but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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Christianity did not destroy paganism it adopted it.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.
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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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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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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
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The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West it is whether men can bear to live without God.
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So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
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Education is the transformation of civilisation
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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
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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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