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Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.

Bernard Baruch

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
Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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People Praise Quick
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
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Men State Thinking Zero
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
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
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
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Action Error Life Motivational Private
Become more humble as the market goes your way.
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Humble Market More Way
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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Expectations Thinking Work
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 ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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Communication Ideas Important
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Hammers Nails Political
What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made?
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Country Made Record Reliance Sturdy
A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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Ark Country Dangerous Favor Future Repudiate
Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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Agreement Sanction Secure Tranquil Understanding
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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Business Money Saving
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

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