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The finger that turns the dial rules the air.
Will Durant
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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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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
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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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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
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Liberty is a luxury of security the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
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The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
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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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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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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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An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.
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There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
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Liberty is a product of order.
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by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them
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A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
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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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I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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