The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
WILL DURANTThe political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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