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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 as if it…

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The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.
Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless…
The modern university does not exist to teach alone...It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a product and…
I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming…
The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving…
The fifth freedom, the Freedom of Individual Enterprise, is the keystone of the arch on which the other Four Freedoms rest. This…
The old world order changed when this war-storm broke. The old international order passed away as suddenly, as unexpectedly, and as completely…
Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.
Many peoples tombstones should read, 'Died at 30. Buried at 60.'
This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we,…
Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an…
The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.

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In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire… — Charles Kendall Adams
In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting… — Jeff Bezos
We are living in a very exciting and powerful time. On the deepest level of consciousness, a radical spiritual transformation is taking… — Shakti Gawain
The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous enough, and… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Our government, taxes, and ideas of freedom are already duplicates of the Old World. Our politicians determine how we should live our… — Harry Browne
...the French Revolution gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order. The revolutionary movement which… — Karl Marx
There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have… — Bat Masterson
It's a funny old world. A man's lucky if he gets out of it alive. — W.C. Fields
I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see… — Alan Keyes
Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable… — Unknown Author
Exactly for the sake of what is new and revolutionary in every child, education must be conservative; it must preserve this newness… — Hannah Arendt
Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than… — Luther Standing Bear

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