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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. (Will Durant)
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife. View quote
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal. View quote
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. View quote
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. View quote
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The family is the nucleus of civilization. View quote
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. View quote
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure. View quote
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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. View quote
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice. View quote
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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. (Will Durant)
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority. View quote
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries. View quote
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law. View quote
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. View quote
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty. View quote
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. View quote
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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. View quote
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy. View quote
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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. View quote
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway. (Will Durant)
A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist. View quote
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity. View quote
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard. View quote
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Education is the transmission of civilization. View quote
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