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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
Will Durant
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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
Equality
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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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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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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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War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
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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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