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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
Wells
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Libraries
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.
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Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.
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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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Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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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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Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
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The finger that turns the dial rules the air.
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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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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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