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.
WILL DURANTEducation is the transmission of civilization.
More Will Durant Quotes
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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