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The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.

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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Even when repressed, inequality grows only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.
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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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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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From barbarism to civilization requires a century from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
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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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Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game
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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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As knowledge grew, fear decreased men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
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