Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
WILL DURANTWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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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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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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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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