Education is the transmission of civilization.
WILL DURANTIn 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.
More Will Durant Quotes
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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