History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
WILL DURANTTo say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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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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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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