Will Durant Quotes
The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have fun or going to get ice cream with my friends.
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On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.
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The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.
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Seeing people get messed up never gets un-funny! And there's plenty of ways to do that.
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I don't think most men do hate women at all - I think most men are trying their best and facing a culturation into masculine behaviour that forces them to deny their own humanity and to exaggerate distance from the world of women.
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I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.
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I can afford to get Tesco's finest sandwiches rather than the basic ones.
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'Dial Star' is about an aspiring actress who finds the cell phone of AnnaLynne McCord and impersonates her.
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History rewards those who can change their minds when the stakes are high.
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How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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I don't want food that comes from animals that are caged up and fed antibiotics. I am really suspicious of that kind of production of meat and poultry.
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The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.