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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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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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Even when repressed, inequality grows only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.
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Often your face is your autobiography
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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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Never mind your happiness do your duty.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.
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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
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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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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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Education is the transformation of civilisation
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Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.
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Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.
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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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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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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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