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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
Autobiography
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History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
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It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
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A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.
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Even when repressed, inequality grows only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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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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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.
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