"There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war."
-Will Durant
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"Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent."
-Will Durant
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"It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country."
-Will Durant
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"Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom."
-Will Durant
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"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art."
-Will Durant
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"Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal."
-Will Durant
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"Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity."
-Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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"A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one."
-Lord John Russell
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"Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means."
-Francis Hutcheson
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"This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will."
-Stanford Moore
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"I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom."
-Nina Totenberg
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"The result showed the wisdom of your orders."
-John Bigelow
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