We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
WILL DURANTEvery form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, 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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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