Education is the transmission of civilization.
WILL DURANTThe political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
More Will Durant Quotes
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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 are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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