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Science tells us how to heal and how to kill it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.

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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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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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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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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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Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.
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The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.
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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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History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.
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Liberty is a product of order.
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Civilizations come and go they conquer the earth and crumble into dust but faith survives every desolation.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
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If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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