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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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☮️ You might have heard of the U.S. #DeclarationOfIndependence from Great Britain; but have you heard of the Universal Declaration of INTERdependence penned by Philosopher #WillDurant?
"Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths:
"That differences of race, color, and creed are natural, and..." https://wp.me/pdNtrx-1Y
🏷️ #interdependence #sociology #DeclarationOfInterdependence
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"Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice."
Will Duranthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Durant
(Deb Chachra, How Infrastructure Works, 2023/2025, page 153)
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
— Will Durant
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
-- Will Durant⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WillDurant #History #Nothing
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #NewMexico
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
-- Will Durant -
History
History as usually written is quite different from history as usually lived. The historian records the exceptional because it is interesting.
~ Will Durantslip:4a1452.
#History #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed #Quotes #WillDurant -
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
-- Will Durant⬆ #Quotes #WillDurant #History #Nothing
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Panopainting #NewMexico
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@qurlyjoe
That is a fair statement, and I agree.To clarify, the #WillDurant quote was lifted from the second page of the first volume a whole set written in 1935 on story of civilization.
In this context, #lithiculture definitely existed before #agriculture, but not to sustain an urban “city” or #civilization.
Basically, lithicultures couldn’t gather enough calories to sustain a stationary urban existence.
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“The first form of culture is agriculture.”
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
slip:4a1312.
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
— Will Durant