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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
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.
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Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.
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If you wish to be loved, be modest if you wish to be admired, be proud if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.
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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
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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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There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
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We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
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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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The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.
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Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.
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