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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
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As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.
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The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.
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Science tells us how to heal and how to kill it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.
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Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
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The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.
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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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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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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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Liberty is a luxury of security the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
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That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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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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