Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
WILL DURANTThe trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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