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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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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
Rational
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Emotional
Animal
Feelings
Heart
Men
Deceived
Occasionally

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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of 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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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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