There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
WILL DURANTThe political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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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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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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