Education is the transmission of civilization.
WILL DURANTCivilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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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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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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