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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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It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.
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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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In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.
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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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India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
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Love one another. My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus. You may think that's a lot of lollipop but just try it. Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you'll eventually get along.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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Time sanctifies everything even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.
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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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