We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
WILL DURANTThe ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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