Will Durant Quotes
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
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My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.
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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
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There are probably more internet hate sites about me than Charles Manson.
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McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.
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Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
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You can live in your total potential creative capacity in an instant-with your heart open to give and receive love.
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In life, people talk at right angles. One asks a question, and the other replies in part, then uses that part to move the conversation to something else. Everyone has an agenda, has something they're trying to say - or not say.
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I remember when I first came to America, nobody had a clue what a black Englishman was. I was either South African or Australian to them.
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I was living a life of a lie. I really was.
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I've been in the art world for many years. But the sad fact is that most writers are visually prepubescent. Generally speaking, the literary world is provincial when it comes to matters of art. And it always has been.
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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
