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We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.

Bernard Baruch

Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
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Business Experiment Fool Government
Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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Bears Investment Parks
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
I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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Imagination Inspirational Intelligence
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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Men Mistake Motivation Prove Skill
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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Anybody Consciousness Failure Mistake Nothing
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
You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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Blow Light Shining
Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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Agreement Lying Race
We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
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Equality Ships Wisdom
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
It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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Difficult Knows Sells
Never follow the crowd.
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Inspirational Self Esteem Self Respect
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
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Inspirational Jobs Work
You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.
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Blame Complaining Overcoming
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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Disappointment Freedom Keepin Promise

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