History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
WILL DURANTEducation is the transmission of civilization.
More Will Durant Quotes
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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