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Will Durant Quotes

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: November 5, 1885 - November 7, 1981

Topics

Chaos Liberty Civilization Order

With experience, you understand expectations, you understand consequences, but sometimes it gets a little bit hard, especially for me, that I'm a perfectionist - I want to analyse everything. And sometimes it's most important to just let go and trust your instincts. This is what I need to do more of.

Trust Experience Me Expectations You

There has been one defining production for me in each decade.

Me Decade Production Been Defining

Different roles call for different aspects or different faces of Sterling to emerge.

Sterling K. Brown

Call Faces Different Different Roles

Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.

I Am Me Roots Anything Guy Knows

Many modern people have gone so far in their dependence on others for their feeling of reality that they are afraid that without it they would lose the sense of their own existence.

People Reality Lose Feeling Others

Joining a new church and starting a new life is never easy and often frightening.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Life Church New Life Easy New Never

Regulatory reform must move beyond limiting the damage that the financial sector can do and ensure that the sector genuinely serves society.

Joseph Stiglitz

Society Financial Beyond Reform Move

I think 60 is when many people hit their prime. We elect many of our presidents in their 60s. At that age, people are full of ideas and their best self. I wanted to dig into my potential and bring out my best self.

Age Best People Ideas Think Self

When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training.

Good Training School You Drama Left

When my friends in college had crushes, I used to think something is wrong with them. I just chill out.

College Think Chill Friends Wrong

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

Relationship Poetry World Literature

One of the things that I was kind of holding on to from 'The Daily Show' was there was an exhaustion that I would feel because we just kind of got caught up in the news cycle. You tell a story, and that's an interesting story, and then the next day we have to drop it and talk about something else. That's so unfair to the story and the people.

Daily Day People Story Interesting

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