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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
Humans
Geological
Repeats
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Large
History
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Human

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A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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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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So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.
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The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
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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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From barbarism to civilization requires a century from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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Christianity did not destroy paganism it adopted it.
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by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them
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