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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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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
History
Money
Things
Men
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Manage

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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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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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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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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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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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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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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