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Nicholas Murray Butler

Nicholas Murray Butler (April 2, 1862 – December 7, 1947) was an American philosopher, diplomat, and educator. Butler was president of Columbia University, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He became so well known and respected that The New York Times printed his Christmas greeting to the nation every year.

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An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

Education, Encouraging, Expert, Funny, Knows

The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.

30Th Birthday, Buried, Epitaphs, People, Sixty, Tombstone

Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space.

Boundless, Creations, Eye, Hands, Science, Space

The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.

Change, Day, Four, Looking, Week

Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.

Atheism, Given, Grounds, Liberty, Place, Religious

The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the problems that will confront the world tomorrow.

America, Confront, Historical, Nation, Tomorrow, Understanding

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

Appreciation, Courage, Foundation, Life, Optimism, Teacher

This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.

Desire, Driving, Knowledge, Progress

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Essential, Foundation, Motivational, Optimism, Positive, Success

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.

Civilization, False, Freedom, Life, Order, Wholly

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything that the history of philosophy records-of Lobachevsky and Riemann, Gauss and Sylvester. Indeed, mathematics, the indispensable tool of the sciences, defying the senses to follow its splendid flights, is demonstrating today, as it never has been demonstrated before, the supremacy of the pure reason.

Expanded, Philosophy, Reason, Records, Supremacy, Today

Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be.

Educated, Instructed, May, People, Thinking, Uneducated

I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.

Achievement, Class, Majority, People, Things, Three

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.

Bore, Ears, Eye, Group, Groups, Sound

Fundamentally, the force that rules the world is conduct, whether it be moral or immoral. If it is moral, at least there may be hope for the world. If immoral, there is not only no hope, but no prospect of anything but destruction of all that has been accomplished during the last 5,000 years.

Accomplished, Fundamentally, May, World, Years

Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.

Apt, Businesses, Failing, Profit, Succeed

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.

Fifth, Four, Freedom, Individuality, Mean, Rest

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

America, Country, Education, World

Cherish yesterday. dream tomorrow, live like crazy today!!

Crazy, Dream, Like, Today, Yesterday

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method

Defying, Descartes, Expanded, Math, Method, Newton

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