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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
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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
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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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Nothing is new except arrangement.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.
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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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War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
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As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.
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Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.
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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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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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If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.
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In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.
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Civilizations come and go they conquer the earth and crumble into dust but faith survives every desolation.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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