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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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It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas. — David Byrne
In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint. — Graydon Carter
In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war]… — Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it… — Lewis B. Smedes
In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult. — Nicolas Bentley
The old world order changed when this war-storm broke. The old international order passed away as suddenly, as unexpectedly, and as completely… — Nicholas Murray Butler
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. It seems almost as if progress itself and our fight… — Norbert Wiener
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no… — Eckhart Tolle
It seems almost inherent in human beings that when you are thriving for a certain level of spirituality, you tend to reject… — Jim Dodge
It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to slavery. — James Forten
There are days when simply seeing feels like happiness itself....You feel so rich, the elation seems almost excessive and you want to… — Robert Doisneau

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