Will Durant Quotes
And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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Watch your finances like a hawk.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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What can you do? You're never going to be - I'm sure there are people out there who think Cindy Crawford isn't pretty.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.
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The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
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Do you agree that the European Union should be able to prescribe the mandatory settlement of non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary without the consent of parliament?
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
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I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.
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I wrote a book called ‘Dancing The Dream’. It was more autobiographical than Moonwalk, which I did with Mrs. Onassis. It wasn’t full of gossip and scandal and all that trash that people write, so I don’t think people paid much attention to it, but it came from my heart. It was essays, thoughts and things that I’ve thought about while on tour...
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This is my impression of a Southern woman. 'Tsk, I am so mad at the Taliban right now!'
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Man, if he is to remain man, must advance by way of consciousness. There is no road leading backward. ... We can no longer veil reality from ourselves by renouncing self-consciousness without simultaneously excluding ourselves from the historical course of human existence.
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Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
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And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.
