We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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