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

Bernard Baruch

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
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
Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
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Ethics Responsibility Tomorrow
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
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
I made my money by selling too soon.
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Business Finance Selling
Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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Always Hardest Investing Times
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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Communication Ideas Important
Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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Doors Luck Player
Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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Bears Investment Parks
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Destruction Peace War World
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
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Funny Humor Men
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
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Men Power Reasoning
Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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College Little Past Philosophy

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