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Quote by Will Durant
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes o

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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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries. – Will Durant

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

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He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. – William Drummond, Academical Questions

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I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree. – James Douglas

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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. – Voltaire

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Practical gentlemen hate uncertainty, balancing of probabilities, skepticism or approximation. They have a number of bitterly satirical comments on persons whose minds are so open that their brains fall out. They are bent on getting to a conclusion. – Max Radin, 1937

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