Will Durant Quotes
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.
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The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way. It contains in its basic structure both quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. That's big news.
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If you are not learning while you’re earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
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I don't like hearing that I've lost weight. I like hearing that it looks like I have gained weight?!
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I love what Nick is trying to do. We have a lot of concerns about the sustainability of his approach.
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We cannot avoid our lives. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our lives at all... the more you understand, the more you will realize your own responsibility.
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When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.
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It is concern that precedes and inspires agendas, and survives when agendas fail, and it causes us to try again, always trying our best, never certain about our own judgment. It is knowing that God's purpose exceeds whatever we can put in an agenda.
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Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.
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There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.
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The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.
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He has had to make a few adjustments. He sacrifices himself for the team.
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Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man.
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And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.
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I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
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She was more than willing to let him walk off his temper. And the man had one, even if he wasn't willing to admit it.
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There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting.
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And she has a thousand virtues and not one acknowledged sin, But she is the sort of person you could liken to a pin. And she pricks you, and she sticks you, in a way that can't be said, When you seek for what has hurt you, why, you cannot find the head.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
