Ariel Durant Quotes

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• The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.
• If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even do…
• The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade, but…
• The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
• Man, not the earth, makes civilization.
• When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe...
• The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.
• It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.
• A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

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