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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
Library
Mankind
Read
Wells
Well
Think
Thinking
Libraries
Rejoice

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Every state begins in compulsion but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.
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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
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An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.
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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
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War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard
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Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
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We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.
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India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
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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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