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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
Reports
Manage
History
Money
Things
Men

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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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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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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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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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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process
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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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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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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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A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.
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It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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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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Communism is the opiate of the people.
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