Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
WILL DURANTNothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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