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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In this vast country of ours, people profess different religions, speak different languages, dress differently and observe different customs; but we are one nation; the history of our struggle for independence and our faith in our future development are our common bonds.
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I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.
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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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Man is potentially a son, and woman is potentially a mother; woman depends on the dependence of man. The spinster, if pathetic at all, is pathetic because she has no one to look after, not because there is no one to look after her. Bear in mind that the conventional spinster keeps a canaary as a substitute for a husband.
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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
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Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
