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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
Increasing
Progress
Environment
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Life

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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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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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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Christianity did not destroy paganism it adopted it.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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