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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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We have now the remarkable spectacle that just when many scientific men are agreed that there is no part of the Darwinian…
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The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
— William Ralph Inge
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In many ways Nazism was antithetical to what the great mass of Germans said they admired - and certainly to what they…
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Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody…
— Ezra Pound
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The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.
— William Ralph Inge
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In my younger days, when I was painted by the half-educated, loose and inaccurate ways women had, I used to say, "How…
— Maria Mitchell
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He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.
— Gerald Durrell
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It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way…
— George Orwell
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America is the best half-educated country in the world.
— Nicholas Murray Butler
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