"There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present."

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Will Durant

#Past Quotes #Found Quotes #Flourishing Quotes

“Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.”
“I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep your ***** in place, eat a lot of vegetables, take exercise, and you'll be fine.”
“We can cross the rivers of doubt and discouragement on the bridge of faith even before we get to them”
“I love recording music.”
“For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were any two things so ill coupled together as the Doctrine of Christianity and that of Transubstantiation, because they draw several ways, and are ready to strangle one another: For the main Evidence of the Christian Doctrine, which is Miracles, is resolved into the certainty of Sense, but this Evidence is clear and point blank against Transubstantiation.”
“Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.”
“I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.”
“Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common.”

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