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Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.

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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
Environment
Control
Life
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Progress

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Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
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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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The future never just happened. It was created.
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History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them
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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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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
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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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So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.
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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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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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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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India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.
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So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.
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The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
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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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