The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
WILL DURANTBankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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