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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.

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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
Thinking
Libraries
Rejoice
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Mankind
Read
Wells
Well
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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Even when repressed, inequality grows only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.
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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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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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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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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Civilizations come and go they conquer the earth and crumble into dust but faith survives every desolation.
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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
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History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.
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Science tells us how to heal and how to kill it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.
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Love one another. My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus. You may think that's a lot of lollipop but just try it. Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you'll eventually get along.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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