Will Durant
Will Durant
William James "Will" Durantwas an American writer, historian, and philosopher. He is best known for The Story of Civilization, 11 volumes written in collaboration with his wife, Ariel Durant, and published between 1935 and 1975. He was earlier noted for The Story of Philosophy, described as "a groundbreaking work that helped to popularize philosophy"...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 November 1885
civilization soul dies
The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
tools rulers
To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
book eye night
If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string.
secret bankers fluctuation
Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.
war struggle rome
A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
inspirational life positive
Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day
bit calm conditions fairly hit middle otherwise played wind
There was a little bit of wind in the middle of the round, but otherwise the conditions were fine. For the most part, it was pretty calm and I just played fairly steady. I hit a lot of fairways and greens. I didn't try to do anything fancy.
people
We are thin. We are just going to have to go with the people we got.
ask guys stay
We have to stay consistent. We need guys to be disciplined and do what we ask them to do.
broke fought grand slam
We fought to the end. That grand slam broke our back, though.
advantage bat came count guys runs score shore swing took
We had opportunities to score runs early, but we didn't do it. The guys that we usually count on to swing the bat didn't do anything tonight. Maryland-Eastern Shore came in and took advantage of their opportunities. They did what they had to do. We have to play better than we did tonight.
known pitching thin
When we scheduled these games, we thought we were going to have mid-week starters. If I had known we'd be this thin with our pitching staff, I wouldn't have scheduled these games.
athletes playing trend
It will be more like linebackers than most of us look like now. That's the trend anyway, better athletes playing golf.
fight good hope last playing until waited
It was good to see some fight out of our team. We waited until the last inning to fight. We just have to come out here, keep playing and hope we get better.