Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
WILL DURANTWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
More Will Durant Quotes
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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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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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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