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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
Desire
Reduces
War
Retail
Experience
Kills
Science
Heal
Death
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Tell
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Light
Kill
Coordinated
Wisdom
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.
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Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
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I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process
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Communism is the opiate of the people.
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