History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
WILL DURANTTired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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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 political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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