We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
WILL DURANTWe are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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