Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
WILL DURANTThe political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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