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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
Money
Things
Men
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History

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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
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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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The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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Liberty is a product of order.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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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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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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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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War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
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Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day
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India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.
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We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.
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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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It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
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