Will Durant Quotes
Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.
Quotes to Explore
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I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.
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Many incredible artists die before they were famous.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
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'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.
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On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.
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My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.
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Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
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The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films, the more I looked like him. I always liked to disguise myself because I was trying to run away from his image. But all that is not worth it.
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Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.
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I die wearing a bootie for three hours. I'm like, get these off of me!
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You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.
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I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others. Huge advances in medicine while mothers die everyday in childbirth . . . Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe.
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There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.
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My feet are my foundation, and they should always feel good!
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
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Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.
