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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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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Never mind your happiness do your duty.
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Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths
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Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
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If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.
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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
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From barbarism to civilization requires a century from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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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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by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them
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The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.
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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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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
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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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