In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

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"Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you are going to do right now, and do it. Today is your lucky day."

- Will Durant

Resilience

"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

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"The family is the nucleus of civilization."

- Will Durant

Family

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

- Will Durant

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"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul."

- Will Durant

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"Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because… No matter how pathetic the reason, it’s enough to start a war. War will never cease to exist… reasons can be thought up after the fact… Human nature pursues strife."

- Paine

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"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."

- Eric Sevareid

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"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"

- Theodor Seuss Geisel

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"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."

- G.K. Chesterton

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