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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.

Bernard Baruch

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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Always Hope Investing Men Soaring Two
America has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…
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Believe Maturity Path Years
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
You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.
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Communism Government Important Political Struggle
“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
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
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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Expectations Thinking Work
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
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Forgiveness Life Positive
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.
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Action Error Life Motivational Private
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.
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Covenant Greatest Nothingness Scarcely Unexampled
Gold has worked down from Alexander’s time… When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
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Believe Mistaken Something Two Years
We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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Birthday Funny Grow Up
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.
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Approach Problem Views
Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Loss Men Power Reason Something Trying
Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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Listen Most Mostly People Successful
We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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Choices Dead Quick Today

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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