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Fallen Leaves
Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God | Will Durant
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Praised as a �revelatory� book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prize�winning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his death. The culmination of Will Durant�s (…more)
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GoneFishing

It is a mistake to think that the past is dead...You, too, are your past; often your face is your autobiography; you are what you are because of what you have been; because of your heredity stretching back into forgotten generations; ...every man or woman that has met you, every book that you have read, every experience that you have had; all these are accumulated in your memory, your body, your character, your soul...

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GoneFishing

We are choked of news and starved of history.

PurpleyPumpkin So, so true, ugh! 😑 8y
AmyG Understatement. 8y
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GoneFishing

I can rephrase “original sin” as man‘s inherited disposition to follow those instincts of pugnacity, sexual promiscuity, and greed which may have been necessary in the hunting stage of human history, but which need a variety of controls in an organized society that guarantees its members protection against violence, theft, and rape; we are born with the taint of ancestral passions in our blood.

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GoneFishing

The fear of death is strangely mingled with the longing for repose.

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The art that has made the most indisputable progress is the art of war.