Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
WILL DURANTThere is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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