Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
WILL DURANTWe are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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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.
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