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We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

Bernard Baruch

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.
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Disarmament Past Peace Years
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
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Blessing Discipline Freedom
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Men Power Reasoning
Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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Agreement Sanction Secure Tranquil Understanding
Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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Doors Luck Player
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
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
It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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Difficult Knows Sells
A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.
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Boys Keep Leader Political Time
Become more humble as the market goes your way.
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Humble Market More Way
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
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
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Experience Man Numbers Retirement Teacher
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
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
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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Business Future Men
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

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