We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
WILL DURANTThe love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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