Ariel Durant Quotes
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
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The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
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Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.
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It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.
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The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.
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If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even do it well.