The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
WILL DURANTThere have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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 political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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