There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
WILL DURANTIt 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.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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