The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
WILL DURANTWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
More Will Durant Quotes
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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