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

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


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The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.



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



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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.



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



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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.



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Time was invented by the Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance.





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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.



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