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Will Durant Quotes

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time Fool People Enough You Be True

I dispute the idea that we turn into our parents. These children who have come into my life are unique beings. I don't think I am teaching my children anything, frankly. I think they are teaching me.

Life Children I Am Parents Me Think

The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.

Andrew McCarthy

People Mind Me Doing The Right Thing

Quetzalcoatl is a primal idea of the duality of human nature. The serpent is the embodiment of Heaven and Earth. It scares people in many ways.

Nature People Human Nature Heaven

We were constantly traveling between Malaysia and Singapore, which is connected by a bridge at the southernmost end of Malaysia. In fact, when I was a child, I had to go between countries twice a day to go to school, because I was living in Malaysia at the time but attending primary school in Singapore.

Time Day School Child Bridge End

I'm feeling around for what happens in a post-'Peep Show' world.

World Feeling Show Happens Around

There are hardly any private sector employees who get both a 401k and a pension. There's just no need that Congress should get both.

Employees Congress Need Get Just

People need to realize how powerful the transformation of soil can be.

People Transformation Powerful Soil

I don't care how people treat me. I care about my message living on through other people.

People Me Treat Care Living Through

For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion that sort of consumes a whole lot of them. I just don't think that that's necessary. I think that that can be a side note rather than the story of your life.

Life Power Religion Story Think Get

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

Myself Training Win Start Learn Got

Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees.

Listening Employees You More Act

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Truth Heart Eye Invisible See Only

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