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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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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
Deserve
Dies
Tares
History
Sowing
Makes
Richer
Next
Destroys
Doe
Seldom
Soil
Burning

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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.
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Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.
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Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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Never mind your happiness do your duty.
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Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.
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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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If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.
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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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Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.
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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
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