We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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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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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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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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