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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.

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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
Enemy
Freedom
Born
Enemies
Equality

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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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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
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Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.
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The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.
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Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.
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The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
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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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The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West it is whether men can bear to live without God.
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Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day
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So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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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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India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
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