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.
BERNARD BARUCHThe 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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Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.
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Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.
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Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot–or if you do not know how to improve on things–then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.
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Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
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No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
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Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
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What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made?
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We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
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Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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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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Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
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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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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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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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Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
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I made my money by selling too soon.
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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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