We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
WILL DURANTEvery science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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