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The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

Ariel Durant

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.

Ariel Durant

Ariel Durant

Ariel Durant

Born: May 10, 1898

Died: October 25, 1981 (aged 83)

Bio: 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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