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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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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
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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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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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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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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From barbarism to civilization requires a century from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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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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So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
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It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
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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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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.
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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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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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Nothing is new except arrangement.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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