Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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 ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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 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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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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