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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
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Fingers
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As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.
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Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
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Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game
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Every state begins in compulsion but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.
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That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
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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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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.
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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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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
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Liberty is a product of order.
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There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
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The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.
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Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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