History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
WILL DURANTEducation is the transmission of civilization.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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