Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTThere have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
More Will Durant Quotes
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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