Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
WILL DURANTNothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do 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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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