The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
WILL DURANTMost of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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 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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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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