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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.

Will Durant

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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
Change
Dissent
Remember
Civilized
Needs
Miss
Express
Remain
Continue
Missing
Sorely
Civilization
Turbulence

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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
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Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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As knowledge grew, fear decreased men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
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The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
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Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day
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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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Liberty is a luxury of security the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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