Will Durant Quotes
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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I've been on a tweeting mission.
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Did I shop Kmart for clothing? No, I didn't. But I loved that I could be totally involved in the hangtags, the buttons, the commercials and with the designers. Something in my head said 'Yes.' I was adventurous.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
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When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.
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Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness.
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.
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Wherever you go in the world, Batman is known. Everyone has an idea of what he should be like.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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I used to love to go to the movies - I'd see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started... now that I think about it, that's kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say, I still love going to the movies, but I don't sneak in anymore.
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...most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute-though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.
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I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.
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A notable scheme has occurred to me.
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If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is. (pg. 140)
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As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.
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Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?'
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People who think radio acting is easy are wrong, because you got nothing to work with but your voice.
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
