Will Durant Quotes
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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There are actors who aren't on the cover of magazines but still decide what work they want and when they want it. I want a family one day. So I dream of really being able to decide when to work and when not to.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
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The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
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There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.
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Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal for the sake of specific results.
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I never thought too highly of anyone foolish enough to take on the nickname of a life-destroying dope product and promote such family-destroying conduct on stage.
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You could fire a grapefruit out of a cannon over the best law schools in the country - and that includes Chicago - and not hit an originalist.
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Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
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Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
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Crack used to be called freebase when white rich people did it. Then it got sold in batches, and white rich people were still doing it, and it was still called freebase. And then all of a sudden this guy named Ricky Freeway Ross started making it and he happened to be black, and- everything is political- and, then it turned into 'crack.'
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Speak up, my boy. If you want truth, you should begin by giving it.
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It's very hard to not give in, to sell your soul: to flatter a more experienced male person of power, a producer or director, in order to get what you want. You feel a pressure to flutter your eyelashes and flirt because you know that will work, and I think it's admirable to not do that.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge, and the cement of all societies.
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How ignorant we are! How ignorant everyone is! We can cut across only a small area of the appallingly expanding fields of knowledge. No human being can know more than a tiny fraction of the whole. It must have been satisfactory in ancient times when one's own land seemed to be the universe; when research studies, pamphlets, books did not issue in endless flow; when laboratories and scientists were not so rapidly pushing back frontiers of knowledge that the process of unlearning the old left you gasping for breath.
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A lot of kids do look up to us. But there are just as many elderly people to put us down.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
