Will Durant Quotes
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I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.
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I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
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A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.
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The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed.
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I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
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Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?” "...I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning." "Well reasoned.
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New and emerging infections keep coming back and the world needs a collective defense system, and that requires international cooperation and collaboration, in the name of global solidarity.
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Because I am so intensely identified with opinion and analysis and contextualization, I think I just need, for my own psychological benefit, a small island in which I can stand and say, 'I'm going to sit this one out.'
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The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.
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The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.
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A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.
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Remember this: Anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.
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If you can find a passion at a young age, somewhere between fifteen and thirty, if you can find that passion, I can pretty much guarantee you that you can be sixty-five and still love that passion and still have a reason to dance out of bed and down the hall every morning.
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Always remember that you are bigger than the moment, you are more than anything that could ever happen to you.
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Every Valentine's Day, the student council sponsered a holiday fundraiser by selling roses that would be delievered in class. The roses came in four colors:white, yellow, red, pink, and the subtleties of thier meaning were parsed and analyzed by the female population to no end. Mimi had always understood it thus:white for love, yellow for friendship, red for passion, and pink for a secret crush.
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When I look in the mirror, I see a work in progress.
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God will himself one day hold all humans, and all human governments, to account, but the church has the responsibility in the present to speak words of truth and judgment in advance of that final holding-to-account.
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Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest. And it has power. Unbelievable power.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
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If the student truly absorbs the concept of free inquiry in the field of music, unimpeded by blind adherence to doctrine and tradition, he will bring something of this approach not only to other fields of knowledge but to the conduct of his daily life.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
