Education is the transmission of civilization.
WILL DURANTTo speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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It 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.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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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 exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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