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The finger that turns the dial rules the air.

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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
Dial
Finger
Fingers
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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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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.
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Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.
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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
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Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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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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Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.
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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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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
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Never mind your happiness do your duty.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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