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" Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard. "
Will Durant
Money
History
Man
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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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" Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn. "
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" I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. "
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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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" Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law. "
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" The family is the nucleus of civilization. "
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" Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Inquiry is fatal to certainty. "
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" Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity. "
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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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" To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. "
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" Education is the transmission of civilization. "
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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. "
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" To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say. "
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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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Day
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" Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. "
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" Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. "
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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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" History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice. "
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Prejudice
" 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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Only
" Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. "
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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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