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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game
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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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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
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In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.
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Science tells us how to heal and how to kill it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.
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The future never just happened. It was created.
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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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It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
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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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