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Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Bernard Baruch

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.
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Learn Men Observation
The path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago … How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom – the clothing of the grave – that some people believe she is already fitted for.
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Ago Clothes Grave Hundred People Some Years Young
A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty’s horse to fly within the year – on the condition that if he didn’t succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. “Within a year,” the man explained later.
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Assuring Die Explain Horse Kings Later Majesty Man Philosophy
I never lost money by turning a profit.
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Lost Lost Money Profit
A man can’t retire his experience.
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Ciphers Experience Retirement
So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.
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Available Detector Fingerprint Hate Instruments Lying Men Shiver Washing
I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.
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Giving Keep Middle Moving Top
When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
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Beggar Belief Boys Dangerous Illusion Shoeshine
The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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Men War Weaponry
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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Good Liars Times Timing
Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.
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Government Individuality People
Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation…
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Lying Peace Salvation Work
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Courage Encouraging Meaningful
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with.
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Change Grappled Problem Reality Truth
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
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Cold Shooting War
Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all…
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Knowing Passion Thinking

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