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Our Oriental Heritage (The Story of Civilization, #1)

by Will Durant

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"04/12/2026

finished the first 20% of volume 1 after 2 yrs!

this is the first sentence of the book: “civilization is social order promoting cultural creation.”

followed by 6 great chapters:
1. what are the conditions of civilizations?
2. economic (hunting, tillage, property)
3. political (gov, state, law, family)
4. moral (marriage, religion + origin)
5. mental (letters, science, art)
6. prehistoric beginning" — Apr 12, 2026 11:29AM

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“Thought is not reality; yet it is through thought that our realities are created.”
― Joseph Nguyen, Don't Believe Everything You Think

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“It's not about the events that happen in our lives, but our interpretation of them, which causes us to feel good or bad about something.”
― Joseph Nguyen, Don't Believe Everything You Think

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“Liberty and equality are enemies: the more freedom men enjoy, the freer they are to reap the results of their natural or environmental superiorities; hence inequality multiplies under governments favoring freedom of enterprise and support of property rights. Equality is an unstable equilibrium, which any difference in heredity, health, intelligence, or character will soon end. Most revolutions find that they can check inequality only by limiting liberty, as in authoritarian lands.”
― Will Durant, The Age of Napoleon: The Story of Civilization, Volume XI

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“The worst thing in life is not shortage of food; it's human indignity.”
― Robert Kuok Hock Nien, Robert Kuok: A Memoir

tags: colonisation

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“There was a balance. It wasn’t because humans lived in balance with nature. Humans died in balance with nature.”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think

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