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Liberty is a product of order.

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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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Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.
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Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.
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A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.
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The future never just happened. It was created.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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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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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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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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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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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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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
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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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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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It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
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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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