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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
Cultural
Begins
Chaos
Creation
Culture
Ends
Insecurity

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It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
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Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
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So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
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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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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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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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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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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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Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game
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As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.
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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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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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