Will Durant Quotes
Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.
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I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.
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My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.
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I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.
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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.
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Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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Virtues, n. pl. Certain abstentions.
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Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.
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Nation states are archaic leftovers from when each man feared the tribe over the hill, an attitude we can’t afford anymore.
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I want fake love. But that's all I want, and that's why I can't have it.
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I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.
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Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.
