We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
WILL DURANTInquiry is fatal to certainty.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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 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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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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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