Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes
The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.
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Architecture is invention.
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But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
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We should have more invention.
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We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase life's hustling; so that, unless we can dominate the mischief, we are really the worse off instead of the better.
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I think of companies like Nokia having anthropologists who study how people use cell phones, who do that kind of commercial and marketing work, selling out to corporations. I wonder if that has something to do with the image of the more innocent anthropologist, now gone.
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Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.
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The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need.
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The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.
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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
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His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.
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When scandal has new-minted an old lie, Or tax'd invention for a fresh supply, 'Tis call'd a satire, and the world appears Gathering around it with erected ears; A thousand names are toss'd into the crowd, Some whisper'd softly, and some twang'd aloud, Just as the sapience of an author's brain, Suggests it safe or dangerous to be plain.
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The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.
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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
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The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences.
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It's ironic that this amazing invention of the Internet has made information gathering easier available than ever, but that this platform also helps spread misinformation.
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Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.
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But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.
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There's the craft of acting, and then there's a quality. There's a quality that someone has.
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There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
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The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.
