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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
Philosopher
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North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Education is the transformation of civilisation
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.
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The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West it is whether men can bear to live without God.
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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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The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
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