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• The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.

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• One of the lessons of history is that the gods can be silent in many languages.

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• Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

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• The Scientist is as interested in the leg of the flea as the creative throes of a genius… Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces the death rate in retail, and then kills us wholesale in war.

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• Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

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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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• 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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• Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

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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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• As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

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• There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

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• The family is the nucleus of civilization.

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• Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

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• Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

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• Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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• Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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• Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

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• Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

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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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• 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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Will Durant (46)

Birth:	5th November, 1885
Death:	7th November, 1981
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Historian, Philosopher, Teacher, Writer

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