Will Durant Quotes
Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
Will Durant
Quotes to Explore
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
Salman Rushdie
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
Gary Bauer
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
Barbara Bush
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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
Ovid
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I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.
Ralph Fiennes
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.
Ian Anthony Dale
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Pilates is great.
Orlando Bloom
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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
Xun Kuang
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I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!
W. Mark Felt
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The independence project in Catalonia is... a peaceful revolution, carried out in suit, shirt, and tie.
Carles Puigdemont
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
e. e. cummings
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The young earth-solution to reconciling the order of creation with natural history makes good exegetical and theological sense. Indeed, the overwhelming consensus of theologians up through the Reformation held to this view. I myself would adopt it in a heartbeat except that nature seems to present such strong evidence against it.
William A. Dembski
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O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees It is a love in darkness wrought obedient to the unseen sun, longer than memory, a thought deeper than the graves of time. The turning spindles of the cells weave a slow forest over space, the dance of love, creation, out of time moves not a leaf, and out of summer, not a shade.
Kathleen Raine
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Anybody who believes and experiences their life and doesn't have shades of gray in it doesn't live where I live and is simply not in touch with the reality of the human condition.
Alexis Denisof
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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
Will Durant
