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The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
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The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade, but only the imagination and initiative of leaders, and the hardy industry of followers, can transform the possibilities into fact...Man, not the earth, makes civilization.
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Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
Ariel Durant
Born:
May 10, 1898
Died:
October 25, 1981
(aged 83)
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Ariel Durant was a Ukrainian-born American researcher and writer and the coauthor of The Story of Civilization with her husband Will Durant.
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