Will Durant Quotes
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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You cannot do only one thing.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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Word of mouth is the most valuable form of marketing, but you can't buy it. You can only deliver it. And you have to really deliver.
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There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.
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Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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I believe that working with good people matters because then the work environment is good. If there is a sense of respect and belief among the people you work with, that is when good work is done.
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I used to be obsessed with game shows. When the Game Show Network became popular in the late '90s, I was all about reruns of 'The Price Is Right.' I knew all the prices from the '70s.
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Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
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I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.
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Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.
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As a youngster I used to try to pick up any bits of wisdom about the guitar I could. It's not like now where you have books and books about every aspect of anything. Any little pearl of wisdom was welcome back then.
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I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity.
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As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'
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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
