The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
WILL DURANTEvery form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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