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

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Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
Education
William J. Durant

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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.
Government
William J. Durant

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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
Certainty
William J. Durant

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

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
Morality
William J. Durant

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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
Equality
William J. Durant

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
Action
William J. Durant

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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
Haste
William J. Durant

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Nothing is new except arrangement.
Plagiarism
William J. Durant

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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
Family
William J. Durant

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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
Communism and Socialism
William J. Durant

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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.
Freedom
William J. Durant

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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
Order
William J. Durant

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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
Teachers and Teaching
William J. Durant

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun