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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
Wherever
Arise
Explain
Done
Things
Men

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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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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
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Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
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In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.
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Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.
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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.
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Liberty is a product of order.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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