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Quote by Will Durant
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the la

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

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

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Thinking
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say. – Will Durant

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good
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. – Will Durant

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Other Quotes from
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A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, Uncle Toms Cabin and, in modern drama, Larry Kramers The Normal Heart. – Tony Kushner

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History

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. – Pearl Buck

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History

All history is incomprehensible without Christ. – Ernest Renan

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History

The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history. – Miguel de Unamuno, En Gredos

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History

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An aging man cannot rewrite his youth but a youth may rewrite his own future. – Terri Guillemets

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Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the promises given in return; it is a way of recording our human emotions and desires and taboos. – Jane Yolen

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Storytelling

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: Checkout Time is 18 years. – Erma Bombeck

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I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness. – Carl Hiaasen

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Morning