We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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 trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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