It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
WILL DURANTEvery science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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