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	Will Durant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Durant was born in North Adams, Massachusetts of French-Canadian parents who had been part of the Quebec emigration to the USA.
		Durant, it has been said widely, attempted to bring philosophy to the common man. He authored The Story of Philosophy, The Mansions of Philosophy, and, with the help of his wife, Ariel, wrote The Story of Civilization.
		In 1900, Will was educated by the Jesuits in Saint Peter's Academy and, later, Saint Peter's College in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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	Will Durant Online: The Gentle Philosopher
		Durant was deeply moved when he learned that Buckle had died in Damascus, after writing merely the introduction to what had been planned as a history of civilization, from its origins to the 19
		Durant resolved to undertake the same task -- but he was 41 before he was free to begin.
		Durant embodied the two qualities that he once declared no philosophy or philosopher was complete without: understanding and forgiveness.
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	The My Hero Project - Ariel Durant
		An active lecturer and believer in the rights of women, Ariel Durant was able to share in her husband’s fame and accomplishments, though with her personality and ambition she probably would have preferred more independent recognition for her talents.
		The Durants were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1968 for Rousseau and Revolution, the tenth volume of the series.
		The Durants were elected to the Institute of Arts and Sciences, and Ariel was chosen one of the five women of the year in 1965 by the Los Angeles Times.
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	Who is Will Durant?
		Durant abandoned his studies in the seminary and viewed himself to be a Socialist at one point an atheist and later an agnostic.
		In many ways Durant was a man of his era, even though his preoccupation’s were the mysteries of the ages.
		Durant is correct in his assessment and selects heroic examples of what constitutes civilization.
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	Will Durant and Ariel Durant -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Will Durant's writing career began with the publication of Philosophy and the Social Problem (1917).
		Durant, William C. automobile manufacturer William C. Durant was the founder of General Motors Corporation, which he began with a horse-drawn carriage company in 1886.
		Wills must ordinarily be in writing, but oral wills are accepted in some places because of emergency situations such as imminent danger of death.
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	Will Durant History of Civilization Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Will Durant and his wife have devoted their entire lives to the full journey of mankind from its beginnings to the time of Napoleon.
		Will Durant's many times rhythmic prose and far reaching knowledge of philosophy gives, when at his best, real life to past events.
		Will Durant (1885-1981), U.S. historian and author, born in North Adams, Mass.; director Labor Temple School, New York, N.Y., 1914-27 ('The Story of Philosophy'); with his wife, Ariel Durant (1898-1981), he wrote 'The Story of Civilization', the 10th volume 'Rousseau and Revolution' winning Pulitzer prize 1968, 11th and final volume 'The Age of Napoleon' 1975.
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	J.B.S. Haldane + Will Durant
		The son of devout French-Canadian parents, Will Durant was guided toward a Jesuit education in Jersey City by his mother, but his reading of science and philosophy prompted him to observe,
		Durant's major works include his first success, The Story of Philosophy (1926), The Story of Civilization, for which he received a Pulitzer Prize, and The Lessons of History (1968).
		Will Durant died on 7 November 1981, within two weeks of the death of his wife, Ariel (d.
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	Will Durant - Wikiquote
		William James Durant (5 November 1885 - 7 November 1981) American historian, philosopher and writer.
		India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.
		The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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	Will Durant History of Philosophy
		Durant uses this viewpoint to dismiss Immanuel Kant's argument for the existence of God.
		Durant quotes Spinoza (who seems to be his hero) "a stone flying through the air, if it had consciousness, might think itself free, but it really is not." A thorough-going materialist would have to believe that every line of Hamlet was contained in the primordial nebula.
		At the same time every thought, word, deed and omission of our lives will be laid bare before Him--and we ourselves will finally be confronted with their consequences.
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	Durant, William James. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This was followed by The Story of Philosophy (1926), an immediate best seller that opened the way for a school of popularized history.
		Durant then embarked upon a life-long project, the writing of a comprehensive history of civilization.
		7–11 written with his wife, Ariel Durant) is a monumental work stretching from prehistory to the 19th cent.
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	Alibris: Will Durant
		In 1921, Will Durant began his five-decade-long series, The Story of Civilization.
		Before his death, Will Durant was working on a project relating to his bestselling THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION.
		Rousseau and Revolution, " Volume 10 of Willand Ariel Durant's" Story of Civilization, " ranges over a Europe in ferment, but centers on the passionate rebel--philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the great exponent of the romantic impulse toward self-exploration and social revolt, who contended with the great rationalist, Voltaire, for the mind of...
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	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Will Durant
		MSN Encarta - Search Results - Will Durant
		Durant, Will (1885-1981), American historian, whose works on philosophy and world history have been read by millions of people.
		Southeastern Oklahoma State University, public, coeducational institution in Durant, Oklahoma, about 82 km (about 50 mi) southeast of Ardmore.
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	Will Durant \| Ethicist \| Questia.com Online Library
		The Age of Faith: A History of Medieval Civilization -Christian, Islamic, and Judaic - from Constantine to Dante: A.D. by Will Durant.
		Will Durant confirms this in the Chinese context...an almost complete autonomy.
		Will Durant, The Story of Civilization, Part...ferries and...
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	Durant, Will: The Story of Civilization
		Durant is universally recognized as a modernist and a secularist.
		Such selective quoting from a Bible hater like Durant is nothing short of dishonest and proves nothing about trinity being from the pagans, unless we accept all the other things Durant says was borrowed from the pagans into Christianity!
		Durant was, by his own definition, an agnostic.
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	Will Durant Quotations
		The finger that turns the dial rules the air.
		If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.
		A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within.
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	Quotes from Will Durant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
		Leave men free, and their natural inequalities will multiply almost geometrically, as in England and America in the nineteenth century under laissez-faire.
		To check the growth of inequality, liberty must be sacrificed, as in Russia after 1917.
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	William C. Durant -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		U.S. automobile manufacturer William C. Durant was the founder of General Motors Corporation, which he began with a horse-drawn carriage company in 1886.
		General Motors Corporation (GM), which ultimately became the world's largest automotive firm and the largest privately owned manufacturing enterprise in the world, was founded in 1908 by William C. Durant, a carriage manufacturer of Flint, Michigan.
		With William C. Durant he built the first Chevrolet car in 1911.
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	BookkooB : Renaissance - Will Durant, Ariel Durant : Compare Book Prices
		Above you will see price and availability details for Renaissance: The Story of Civilization by Will Durant, Ariel Durant from the leading UK book stores.
		I've read 4 other brilliantly written and researched books by Durant, but after going through this book my admiration of this author turned into awe: the amount of information he provides the reader with (even if you have experience in enjoying such volumes and know the difference betw.
		After being through half of the book facts and life-stories of all universally and hardly-so-well-known politicians, humanists, popes, sculptors, artists, philosophers, kings and merchants and a hundred of other notable personae began to choke me and I couldn't finish the book, to my shame.
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	Will Durant Encyclopedia Article, Information, History and Biography @ LaunchBase.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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	Fictionwise eBooks: Will Durant
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		In the tradition of his own bestselling masterpieces The Story of Civilization and The Lessons of History, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Will Durant here traces the lives and ideas of those who have helped to define civilization, from its dawn to the beginning of the modern world.
		Four years before his death, Will Durant began work on an abbreviated version of his highly acclaimed eleven-volume series, The Story of Civilization.
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	Will Durant Discussion
		I recently came across a forum that has started the reading of "The Story of Civilization" and thought I would alert anyone interested.
		Once you join and are approved by the moderator you will be free to participate in the discussion as the group makes it way through the eleven volumes.
		The group is just starting so feel free to invite any friends.
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	Will Durant Quotes
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	Will Durant (1885-1981) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
		Here's a great Will Durant quote, from p 657 of _Our Oriental Heritage_ (1935, Simon and Schuster):
		Then we shall take to the woods with Jacques, Jean-Jacques, and Lao-Tze; we shall make friends of the animals, and discourse more contentedly than Machiavelli with simple peasant minds; we shall leave the world to stew in its own deviltry, and shall take no further thought of its reform."
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	Benchrest Central Forums - View Profile: Will Durant
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	Amazon.co.uk: Search Results Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Story of Philosophy ~ Will Durant -- (Paperback - October 1967)
		Lessons of History ~ Will Durant -- (Paperback - December 31, 1994)
		Burger Boy ~ Alan Durant, Mei Matsuoka (Illustrator) -- (Hardcover - September 1, 2005)
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	Ariel and Will Durant Quote - Quotation from Ariel and Will Durant - Civilization Quote - Education Quote - Wisdom ...
		Ariel and Will Durant Quote - Quotation from Ariel and Will Durant - Civilization Quote - Education Quote - Wisdom Quotes - Ariel and Will Durant Quotation
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	Books by Will Durant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		STORY OF CIVILIZATION, VOL IX: AGE OF VOLTAIRE : VOLUME IX (Story of Civilization)
		by Will Durant Ariel Durant Grover Gardner John Little
		Caesar and Christ (The Story of Civilization, Vol.
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	Will Durant quotes
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		American Writer and Historian, collaborator of his wife, Ariel Durant.
		“Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game”
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