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• The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
  -- Will and Ariel Dura...
• Education is the transmission of civilization. -- Will and Ariel Dura
• Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant. -- Will and Ariel Dura
• A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
  -- Ariel Dura...
• The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality.
  -- Will and Ariel Dura...
• Protestantism was the triumph of Paul over Peter. Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
  Will & Ariel Durant (1885/1898-1981)...
• I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. -- George Meredith
• In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life
  uch are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds....
• INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.
  "All men are ingrates," sneered the cynic. "Nay," The good philanthropist replied...