We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
WILL DURANTEducation is the transmission of civilization.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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The family is the nucleus 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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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