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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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Fingers
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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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Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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 begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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Drunkenness was in good repute in England till Bloody Mary frowned upon it it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.
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Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.
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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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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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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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Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
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In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.
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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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A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.
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Education is the transformation of civilisation
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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