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Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.

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
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
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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Disappointment Freedom Keepin Promise
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
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
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
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Character Technology Thinking
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
We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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Choices Dead Quick Today
There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
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Health Incurable Men Science Things
Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.
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Atom Domain Evil Instead Lies Lying Taught
Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters – or anyone – bringing gifts of ‘inside’ information or tips. Don’t try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best.
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Barbers Best Beware Field Information Know Stick Waiter
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
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Funny Humor Men
Society can progress if men’s labors show a profit – if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.
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Loss Men Produce Profit Progress Show Yield
Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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Agreement Lying Race
I never lost money by turning a profit.
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Lost Lost Money Profit
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
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Men State Thinking Zero

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