Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
WILL DURANTEvery science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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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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