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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.
Will Durant
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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
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North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
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Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
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The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
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The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West it is whether men can bear to live without God.
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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