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[Quote No.56776] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Civilization is not inherited. It has to be learned and earned by each generation anew. Consider education not as the painful accumulation of facts and dates, nor merely the necessary preparation of the individual to earn his keep in the world, but as the transmission of our mental, moral, technical, and aesthetic heritage, as fully as possible to as many as possible, for the enlargement of man’s understanding, control, embellishment and enjoyment of life. If a man is fortunate, he will before he dies gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children, and to his final breath he will be grateful for this inexhaustible legacy, knowing that it is our nourishing mother and our lasting life." - Will and Ariel Durant
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[Quote No.60436] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding." - Ariel Durant
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[Quote No.57674] Need Area: Mind > Plan
"[While it is not ideal mostly] We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities." - Ariel Durant
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[Quote No.60437] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding!" - Ariel Durant
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[Quote No.15346] Need Area: Money > Tax
"If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all." - Will and Ariel Durant
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[Quote No.40334] Need Area: Money > Tax
"[The following quote is about how the destruction of the Roman Empire through the taxation channel made people 'slaves,' in other words how serfdom emerged. This is always the danger from allowing government to become too big and powerful and therefore too needy for tax revenue and too intrusive into people's lives.] Rome had its socialist interlude under Diocletian. Faced with increasing poverty and restlessness among the masses, and with the imminent danger of barbarian invasion, he issued in A.D. 3 an edictum de pretiis, which denounced monopolists for keeping goods from the market to raise prices, and set maximum prices and wages for all important articles and services. Extensive public works were undertaken to put the unemployed to work, and food was distributed gratis, or at reduced prices, to the poor. The government – which already owned most mines, quarries, and salt deposits – brought nearly all major industries and guilds under detailed control. In every large town, the state became a powerful employer, standing head and shoulders above the private industrialists, who were in any case crushed by taxation. When businessmen predicted ruin, Diocletian explained that the barbarians were at the gate, and that individual liberty had to be shelved until collective liberty could be made secure. The socialism of Diocletian was a war economy, made possible by fear of foreign attack. Other factors equal, internal liberty varies inversely with external danger. The task of controlling men in economic detail proved too much for Diocletian's expanding, expensive, and corrupt bureaucracy. To support this officialdom – the army, the courts, public works, and the dole – taxation rose to such heights that people lost the incentive to work or earn, and an erosive contest began between lawyers finding devices to evade taxes and lawyers formulating laws to prevent evasion. Thousands of Romans, to escape the tax gatherer, fled over the frontiers to seek refuge among the barbarians. Seeking to check this elusive mobility and to facilitate regulation and taxation, the government issued decrees binding the peasant to his field and the worker to his shop until all their debts and taxes had been paid. In this and other ways medieval serfdom began." - Will and Ariel Durant
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[Quote No.57672] Need Area: Property > General
"The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade, but only the imagination and initiative of leaders, and the hardy industry of followers, can transform the possibilities into fact...Man, not the earth, makes civilization." - Ariel Durant
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[Quote No.16171] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The family is the nucleus of civilization." - Will and Ariel Durant
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[Quote No.7968] Need Area: Friends > General
"The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality." - Will and Ariel Durant

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[Quote No.14852] Need Area: Friends > General
"The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to wider freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality." - Will and Ariel Durant
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