Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
WILL DURANTOur knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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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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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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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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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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