1. Bishop Joseph Butler - “To us probability is the very guide of life.”

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2. Bishop Joseph Butler - “To John Wesley: Sir, the pretending to extraordinary revelations and gifts of the Holy Ghost is a horrid thing, a very horrid thing.”

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3. Bishop Joseph Butler - “Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?”

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4. Brett Butler - “Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.”

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5. Brett Butler - “There are no accidents. God's just trying to remain anonymous.”

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6. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler - “The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.”

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7. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler - “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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8. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler - “America is the best half-educated country in the world.”

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9. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler - “What society needs is broad men sharpened to a point.”

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10. 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.”

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11. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler - “The fifth freedom, the Freedom of Individual Enterprise, is the keystone of the arch on which the other Four Freedoms rest. This is what freedom means.”

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12. 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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13. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler - “Fundamentally, the force that rules the world is conduct, whether it be moral or immoral. If it is moral, at least there may be hope for the world. If immoral, there is not only no hope, but no prospect of anything but destruction of all that has been accomplished during the last 5,000 years.”

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14. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler - “The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.”

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15. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler - “Time was invented by the Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance.”

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16. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler - “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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17. Edward B. Butler - “Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes — another for thirty days, but it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success of his life.”

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18. General Smedly Darlington Butler - “We do nto want any more wars, but a man is a damn fool to think there will not be any more of them.”

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19. Joseph Butler - “It is in books the chief of all perfections to be plain and brief.”

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20. Nicholas Murray Butler - “An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.”

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21. Richard Austen Butler - “An after-dinner speech should be like a lady's dress-long enough to cover the subject and short enough to be interesting.”

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22. Samuel Butler - “Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.”

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23. Samuel Butler - “Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”

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24. Samuel Butler - “To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.”

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25. Samuel Butler - “I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.”

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