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William James "Will" Durant
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"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds." -
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William James "Will" Durant
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Top 5 quotes from William James "Will" Durant
"Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song."
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"Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance."
"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it."
Top 5 quotes from Fear, Hope, Wishing
"May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery."
"It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only."
"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings."
"Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives it ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. "
"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy--for friendship's sake."
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