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I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .

Bernard Baruch

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
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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Expectations Thinking Work
A man can’t retire his experience.
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Ciphers Experience Retirement
The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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Men War Weaponry
Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
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Art Bucketful Courage Creativity Generous Imagination Teacher
Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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People Praise Quick
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
Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Heart People Running Thing
Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
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Being Fortune Quickly Right Sense Wrong
So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.
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Available Detector Fingerprint Hate Instruments Lying Men Shiver Washing
Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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Bears Investment Parks
Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old.
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Aged Anything Enemy Inflation Old
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
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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Disappointment Freedom Keepin Promise
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
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

I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .

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I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .

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