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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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