Century Quote by Ariel Durant

“Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.”

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Century Conclusion Fool Hundred Pages Trying

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The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.

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“We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities.”

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