Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
WILL DURANTIt 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.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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 political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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