Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
WILL DURANTThere have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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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 are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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