"Many peoples tombstones should read, 'Died at 30.……" — Nicholas Murray Butler
"Many peoples tombstones should read, 'Died at 30. Buried at 60.'"
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25 Quotes by Nicholas Murray Butler
Nicholas Murray Butler has 25 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen,…
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The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and…
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The fifth freedom, the Freedom of Individual Enterprise, is the keystone of the arch on which the other Four Freedoms…
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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…
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Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.
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This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes…
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Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time…
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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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Time was invented by the Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance.
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in…
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Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were…
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I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.
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My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
— Ray Charles
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I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them:…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth…
— George Clooney
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Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.
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Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X
— Tupac Shakur
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Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political…
— George Ellery Hale
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Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings…
— Marianne Williamson
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Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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