"Many peoples tombstones should read, 'Died at 30. Buried at 60.'"
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"The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method"
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"America is the best half-educated country in the world."
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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 unjust restriction upon his freedom and a limitation of his right to make the most of himself in order that he may rise in the scale of the social and economic order in which he lives. The notion that all human beings born into this world enter at birth into a definite social and economic classification, in which classification they must remain permanently through life, is wholly false and fatal to a progressive civilization."
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"What society needs is broad men sharpened to a point."
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"The words that bore the deathless verse of Homer from bard to a group of fascinated hearers, and with whose fading sounds the poems passed beyond recall, are fixed on the printed page in a hundred tongues. They carry to a million eyes what once could reach but a hundred ears."
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"Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail."
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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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"The fifth freedom, the Freedom of Individual Enterprise, is the keystone of the arch on which the other Four Freedoms rest. This is what freedom means."
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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 an ornament...The university rests on the public will and on public appreciation."
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