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Education is the transformation of civilisation

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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
Civilisation
Transformation
Education

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Love one another. My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus. You may think that's a lot of lollipop but just try it. Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you'll eventually get along.
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History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.
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War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
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Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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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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Drunkenness was in good repute in England till Bloody Mary frowned upon it it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.
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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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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.
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Liberty is a luxury of security the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
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