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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.
Will Durant
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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
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North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
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War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
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Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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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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The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.
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Civilization is not inherited it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.
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Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
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Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day
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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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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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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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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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