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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»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
Americans, centuries, events, four, hours, informed, informing, informs, last century, sixty, twenty-four, twenty-four hours, twenty
«Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
consent, geological, subject to
«One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say»
«There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war»
«Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
custom, minority, originates, originate in, originating, precedent
«The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| About:
Elderly,
Love,
Marriage,
Youth
| Keywords:
compared, old man, superficial
«Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos»
«To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.»
«Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime»
«Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with from people , stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river.»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| Keywords:
Banks, Historians, homes, make love, Pessimists, river bank, shouting, stealing, The Story, whittle, whittled, whittles, written record
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