Civilization is not ...

Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.
Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.
 Will Durant

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
 Naomi Oreskes
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
 Will Smith
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
 William Howard Taft
I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
 John Carlos

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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.
 Will Durant
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
 Will Durant
India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
 Will Durant
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
 Will Durant
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
 Will Durant