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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.

Bernard Baruch

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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Business Future Men
Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Loss Men Power Reason Something Trying
Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.
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Government Individuality People
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Men Power Reasoning
The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England
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Believe Country Information Wall
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
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.
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Approach Problem Views
Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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Cold Deceived Midst Today War
We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.
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Contribute Needs Socialism
No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
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Anger Humiliate Men
Gold has worked down from Alexander’s time… When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
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Believe Mistaken Something Two Years
We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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Birthday Funny Grow Up
A man can’t retire his experience.
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Ciphers Experience Retirement
To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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Age Birthday Years
The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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Men War Weaponry
Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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Answers Belief Humility

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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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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