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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
Repeat
Doomed
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History

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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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Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.
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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West it is whether men can bear to live without God.
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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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Communism is the opiate of the people.
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That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.
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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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A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Nothing is new except arrangement.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
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The finger that turns the dial rules the air.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
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