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" Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. "
Will Durant
Mirage
Knowledge
Ignorance
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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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People
Time
You
" 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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Trouble
Think
" I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. "
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I Am
Am
Income
" As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy. "
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Dies
Complete
Liberty
" To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. "
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Say
Communication
Half
" Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. "
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Knowledge
Soul
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" When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near. "
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License
Dictatorship
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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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Last
Sixty
People
" 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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Clever
Nothing
Good
" Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity. "
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Order
Activity
Civilization
" 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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Man
Mind
Will
" Education is the transmission of civilization. "
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Education
Civilization
Transmission
" 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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Because
Own
Only
" There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure. "
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Age
Nothing
Socialism
" Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. "
Will Durant
History
Too Much
Years
" Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law. "
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Recognized
He
Man
" Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. "
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Virtue
Just
Hatred
" 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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Great
Old Age
Stress
" Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. "
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Excess
Government
Principle
" Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. "
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Education
Discovery
Ignorance
" Inquiry is fatal to certainty. "
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Fatal
Inquiry
Certainty
" History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice. "
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Guessing
Rest
Prejudice
" Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal. "
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Never
Make
Us
" Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. "
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Chaos
Civilization
Liberty
" Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. "
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Art
Philosophy
Science
" The family is the nucleus of civilization. "
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Civilization
Family
" We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway. "
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Broadway
Street
Look
" 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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World
Day
Life
" Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. "
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Science
Wisdom
Philosophy