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.
WILL DURANTInquiry is fatal to certainty.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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 are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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