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.
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What society needs is broad men sharpened to a point.Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler
The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler
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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The youth of today and the youth of tomorrow will be accorded an almost unequaled opportunity for great accomplishment and for human service.
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler
Time was invented by the Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance.
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler
There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler
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