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America
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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.
-Nicholas Murray Butler
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America is the best half-educated country in the world.
-Nicholas Murray Butler
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Epitaphs
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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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Expertise
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An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
-Nicholas Murray Butler
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Mathematics
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The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method
-Nicholas Murray Butler, The Meaning of Education and Other Essays and Addresses (p. 45)
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Men
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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Optimism
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Optimism is the foundation of courage.
-Nicholas Murray Butler
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Thought
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Perhaps we should comprehend these things better were it not for the persistence of the superstition that human beings habitually think. There is no more persistent superstition than this. Linn
-Nicholas Murray Butler, The Revolt of the Unfit from 'Why Should We Change Our Form of Government', 1912
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Books by and about Nicholas Murray Butler