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Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.

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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
Nothing
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Doomed
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.
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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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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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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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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
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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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The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't 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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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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Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
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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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