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Ariel Durant Biography

Ariel Durant (/dəˈrænt/; 10 May 1898 – 25 October 1981) was a Russian-born American researcher and writer and the coauthor of The Story of Civilization with her husband Will Durant.

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If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even do it well.

Character, Courage, Destiny, Perhaps, Personality

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.

Civilised, Hurry, Man, Men, Quite

The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.

Biology, Fundamentals, History, Law, Laws, Science

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

Infinity, Now And Then, Particle, Philosopher, Pontificating, Remind

Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem he was writing for s a stranger was his own.

Childhood, Childlike, Mozart, Quality, Writing

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

Change, Conservative, Radical, Valuable

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.

Character, Diminishes, Hardy, Men, Technology

Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.

Rebel, Today, Tyrant, Tyrants

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

Civilization, Conquered, Destroyed, Memorable, Women

Man, not the earth, makes civilization.

Civilization, Earth, Man, Men

When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe.

Chivalry, Finished, Knighthood, Order

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.

Action, History, Past, Present, Understanding, Unrolled

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.

Compress, Fool, Hundred, Pages, Trying

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