The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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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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