There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
WILL DURANTCivilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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