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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The catch off Bobby Morgan (a backhanded grab of the Brooklyn Dodger's line drive in September 1951 at Ebbets Field) in Brooklyn was the best catch I ever made. Jackie Robinson and (Giants manager) Leo Durocher were the first people I saw when I opened my eyes
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Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.
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Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.
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Style doesn't change every month or every year. It only changes as often as there is a real change in the point of view and lives of the people for whom it is produced.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
