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Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.

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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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Free
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.
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We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.
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Christianity did not destroy paganism it adopted it.
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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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