Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
WILL DURANTWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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