Will Durant Quotes
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I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.
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To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.
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It's going to take an extra effort on the part of the United States that can't just afford to be unconcerned about the situation.
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It's alright, you can afford to lose a day or two.
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While the worriers are worrying, the planners are planning and the accountants are figuring out why we can't afford it, I'm busy getting started.
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I'm all for bootlegging. A record costs $20 . . . who can afford that?
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For the sake of our children and our grandchildren, we can't afford to let this fail.
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You can't afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!
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I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford.
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There’s one thing we know. We can’t afford – and no one in the world can afford – to treat all the late-stage cancer.
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I look to bop till I drop. That's what I want to do. I want to go out on the road. I love to travel and I couldn't afford to do it if it wasn't for this.
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An African statesman is not a naked boy begging from rich capitalists.
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I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.
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I have no credit cards. That was the decision that was made jointly by the credit card companies, and by me. I can't say that that was completely on my account. I buy nothing on credit now, nothing. If I can't afford it, I don't buy it. I have a debit card, that's all I have. Any debt that I have, I am paying down.
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any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.
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If you watch the evening news, Dr. Kissinger is very often brought on to sort of be the statesman of his age and to reflect dispassionately on world events. And so a film challenging his legacy, a film that assesses charges that are quite grave against him, is something that is touchy for the media to show.
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The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.
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To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.
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I feel that one species, mankind, doesn't have the right to exterminate.
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Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
