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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.

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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
Begins
Chaos
Creation
Culture
Ends
Insecurity
Cultural

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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
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Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Christianity did not destroy paganism it adopted it.
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Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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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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The finger that turns the dial rules the air.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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Drunkenness was in good repute in England till Bloody Mary frowned upon it it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
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If you wish to be loved, be modest if you wish to be admired, be proud if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.
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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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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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