As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
WILL DURANTThe most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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