"Which is now a more hopeful statement than……" — Will Durant
"Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be."
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137 Quotes by Will Durant
Will Durant has 137 quotes on this site.
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That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic,…
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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people…
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Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood,…
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Nothing is new except arrangement.
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A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
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History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection…
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There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid…
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More Aviation Quotes
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one of 307 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
— Neil Armstrong
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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's…
— Douglas Adams
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More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot…
— Cecil Beaton
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In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
— Robert Benchley
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
— Mel Brooks
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When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece…
— Kalpana Chawla
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I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation.…
— Michael P. Anderson
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To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
— Otto Lilienthal
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My first wife didn't like to fly, either.
— Gordon Baxter
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The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a…
— Benny Hill
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
— Jonathan Swift
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In response to how he checked the weather, "I just whip out my blue card with a hole in it…
— Gordon Baxter
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