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Magic begins in superstition and ends in science.
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The discipline of desire is the backbone of character.
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Science is organized knowledge, wisdom is organized life.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
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Never put a man in the wrong; he will hold it against you forever.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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There is nothing in Socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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Philosophy... is the front trench in the siege of truth. Science is the captured territory.
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
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From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.
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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
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The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.
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So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
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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
Will Durant
Born:
November 5, 1885
Died:
November 7, 1981
(aged 96)
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