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History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.

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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
Repeating
Price
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History
Always
Time

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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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Communism is the opiate of the people.
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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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Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them
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