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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.

Bernard Baruch

In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world’s greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.
BERNARD BARUCH

Covenant Greatest Nothingness Scarcely Unexampled
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
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Funny Humor Men
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
BERNARD BARUCH

Action Error Life Motivational Private
Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Deceive Destruction Ourselves Peace
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Hammers Nails Political
The stock market is people.
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Market People Stock
Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.
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Cities Industries Land Roots Trees
We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.
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Contribute Needs Socialism
The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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Men War Weaponry
None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. … The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Art Disappointment Lying
Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Heart People Running Thing
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.
BERNARD BARUCH

Men Mistake Motivation Prove Skill
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Destruction Peace War World
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
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Book Friends Giving Old
“The king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows? Maybe the horse will learn to fly.” My philosophy is like that man’s. I take the long-range view.
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Die Furthermore Horse King Learn Philosophy
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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Expectations Thinking Work

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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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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