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Christianity did not destroy paganism it adopted it.

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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
Paganism
Adopted
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Christianity

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Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.
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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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Education is the transformation of civilisation
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The future never just happened. It was created.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.
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The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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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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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.
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There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
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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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Never mind your happiness do your duty.
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Time sanctifies everything even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
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