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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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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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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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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 revolutionaries are philosophers and saints.
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The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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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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Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.
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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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