We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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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Education is the transmission 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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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