Top 19 Ariel Durant Quotes
#1. A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
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#2. Education is the transmission of civilization.
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#3. No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.
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#4. Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem he was writing for s a stranger was his own.
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#5. What child has a heart to sing in this capricious clime of ours, when spring comes sailing in from the sea, with wet and heavy cloud-sails and the misty pennon of the east-wind nailed to the mast.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#6. The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.
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#7. The theory of war as an apt and proportionate means of solving international conflicts is now out of date.
Pope Pius XII
#8. I learned that true love turns the other cheek, does not take a wrong into account, loves all people regardless of their indifference or hostility.
Donald Miller
#9. This storm we are in concerns me greatly. Even in the midst of the storm I know the Son shines from behind the clouds and will eventually break through completely. There is hope. Let's impact this change together.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#11. We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities.
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#12. I'm much calmer as I get older, but I'm still just as capable of getting that strung-out stressed-out feeling of mental and spiritual unwellness.
Anne Lamott
#13. It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.
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#14. You're my sun, Delilah. Please don't take that away.
Ella Fox
#15. Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.
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#16. The cinema should be human and be part of people's lives; it should focus on ordinary existences in sometimes extraordinary situations and places. That is what really motivates me.
Claire Denis
#17. The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
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#18. Wordless, it rises and falls in hemidemisemitones of unearthly misery. The dirge of the damned
Edward Abbey
#19. When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe ...
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