Will Durant Quotes About Past
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.
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The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.
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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
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