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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
Philosopher
Writer
North Adams
Massachusetts
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Civilizations come and go they conquer the earth and crumble into dust but faith survives every desolation.
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Never mind your happiness do your duty.
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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
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Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.
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India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
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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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History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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Communism is the opiate of the people.
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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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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.
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The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.
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I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.
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Liberty is a product of order.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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