We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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