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We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

Bernard Baruch

Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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College Little Past Philosophy
Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
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Fields Sticks Trying
You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
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Deceive Entitled Fact Like Situation
Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation…
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Lying Peace Salvation Work
Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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People Praise Quick
Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.
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Cities Industries Land Roots Trees
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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Expectations Thinking Work
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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Business Future Men
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
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
A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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Ark Country Dangerous Favor Future Repudiate
I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.
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Giving Keep Middle Moving Top
Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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Full Jobs Speculate Time
I made my money by selling too soon.
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Business Finance Selling
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
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

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