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121 " این نژاد نیست که تمدن را به وجود می آورد، این تمدن است که ملت را می سازد "
― Will Durant , The Lessons of History
122 " But how far has human nature changed in the course of history? Theoretically there must have been some change; natural selection has presumably operated upon psychological as well as upon physiological variations. Nevertheless, known history shows little alteration in the conduct of mankind. "
123 " No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for these are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history. "
124 " by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them. Nothing "
125 " The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding. "
126 " We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities. "
127 " The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade, but only the imagination and initiative of leaders, and the hardy industry of followers, can transform the possibilities into fact...Man, not the earth, makes civilization. "