| Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, 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. |
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- Will Durant |
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| Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. |
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- Will Durant |
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| Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. |
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- Will Durant |
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| To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. |
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- Will Durant |
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| 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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- Will Durant |
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| 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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- Will Durant |
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