To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
WILL DURANTEvery vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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