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

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Source : Commencement address at Columbia University

Nicholas Murray Butler

#Encouraging Quotes #Business Quotes #Knowledge Quotes

“Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference”
“My biggest adjustment has been learning not to be afraid to fail.”
“Peace is a condition of the heart. It's a state of mind, of tranquility, of calmness, and of centeredness. It's an understanding of the reciprocal nature of love, a presence, a journey. It's all of our aspirations. Peace is not a luxury or merely the absence of war, it's a kind of grace - which we're all entitled to as people who are alive. Peace is an active presence of the capacity for a higher evolution of human awareness.”
“People should learn that you cannot dwell in your past. One who dwells in the past hurts not only himself, but also the people around him.”
“People should and do trust me.”
“How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank.”
“[Buzzing at the Sill] deals with the margins of America, a lot of parts unseen. Well, parts that are seen and familiar to a lot of the populace, but unseen when it comes to the parameters of what mainstream news and popular culture and Hollywood reflects.”
“If a person wants to be atheistic it's his God-given right to be an atheist.”

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