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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
Goes
History
Always
Time
Repeating
Price

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History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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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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The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
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Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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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 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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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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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.
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The future never just happened. It was created.
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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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Often your face is your autobiography
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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