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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.

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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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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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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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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.
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Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Education is the transformation of civilisation
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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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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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
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