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The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.
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Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless…
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The modern university does not exist to teach alone...It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a product and…
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I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming…
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The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving…
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The fifth freedom, the Freedom of Individual Enterprise, is the keystone of the arch on which the other Four Freedoms rest. This…
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The old world order changed when this war-storm broke. The old international order passed away as suddenly, as unexpectedly, and as completely…
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Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.
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Many peoples tombstones should read, 'Died at 30. Buried at 60.'
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This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we,…
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Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an…
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The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.
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I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that,…
— Brian Clough
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Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.
— Edward Abbey
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Poet: gardener of epitaphs.
— Octavio Paz
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The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.
— Nicholas Murray Butler
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We love the old saints, missionaries, martyrs, and reformers. Our Luthers, Bunyans, Wesleys and Asburys, etc... We will write their biographies, reverence…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard…
— Mark Twain
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Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.
— Paul Eldridge
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If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the…
— Washington Irving
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Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of…
— William Shakespeare
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No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with…
— William Shakespeare
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History: a collection of epitaphs.
— Elbert Hubbard
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