Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
WILL DURANTThe family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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