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Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.

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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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Forever
Wrong
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Men

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Liberty is a product of order.
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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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Civilization is not inherited it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.
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An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.
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Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.
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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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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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Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
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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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Never mind your happiness do your duty.
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Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.
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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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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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There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
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