Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
WILL DURANTMan became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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