Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
WILL DURANTThe trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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 family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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