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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

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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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Large
History
Nature
Human
Humans
Geological

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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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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.
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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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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
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If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string.
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