As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
WILL DURANTThe family is the nucleus of civilization.
More Will Durant Quotes
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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