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.
WILL DURANTOur knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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