Quote by Will Durant
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thin

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. – Will Durant

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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. – Will Durant

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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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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. – George Eliot

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Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life. – Jacques Chirac

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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. – George Orwell

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History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory. – Mark M. Krug, History and the Social Sciences

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Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom. – Rush Limbaugh

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Ive got no education. – Andrea Arnold

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Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open. – Jerry Saltz

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