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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
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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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It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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Communism is the opiate of the people.
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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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Love one another. My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus. You may think that's a lot of lollipop but just try it. Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you'll eventually get along.
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Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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 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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So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.
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The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
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Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
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Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.
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