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The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Bernard Baruch

It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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Difficult Knows Sells
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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Country Decision Light Path Stock
Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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College Little Past Philosophy
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
Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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Doors Luck Player
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
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
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Cold Shooting War
Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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Always Hardest Investing Times
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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Change Fact Improve Knowing Situation Thing
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
Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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Answers Belief Humility
Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
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Economy Increase Men Produce
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
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 are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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Choices Dead Quick Today
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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Disappointment Freedom Keepin Promise

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

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