Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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 say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of 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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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