The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
WILL DURANTThe family is the nucleus of civilization.
More Will Durant Quotes
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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