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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

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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
Mankind
Dies
Individual
Left
Doe
Something
Succumbs

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It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.
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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.
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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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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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Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
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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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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.
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Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.
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