Education is the transmission of civilization.
WILL DURANTWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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