Quotes by William J. Durant

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  Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

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  Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.

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  Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.

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  Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.

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  Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

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  It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

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  Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

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  Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

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  Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

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  Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

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  No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

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  Nothing is new except arrangement.

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  The family is the nucleus of civilization.

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  The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

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  There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.