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A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
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The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.
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So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.
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