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Lasts Quotes by Will Durant
- Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard
- In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
- Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
- The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last…
- 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…
- The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
- Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come…
- And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave…
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