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Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.

Bernard Baruch

Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Heart People Running Thing
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
Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
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Heart Soul Whatever
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
To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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Age Birthday Years
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
None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. … The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Art Disappointment Lying
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
Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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Cold Deceived Midst Today War
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
I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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Imagination Inspirational Intelligence
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
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Cutting Loss Yield
Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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Forests Insider Play Tree
A man can’t retire his experience.
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Ciphers Experience Retirement
“The king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows? Maybe the horse will learn to fly.” My philosophy is like that man’s. I take the long-range view.
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