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You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.

Bernard Baruch

You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.
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Communism Government Important Political Struggle
Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Inspirational Leadership Teacher
In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world’s greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.
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Covenant Greatest Nothingness Scarcely Unexampled
We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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Choices Dead Quick Today
Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
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Ethics Responsibility Tomorrow
America has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…
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Country Decision Light Path Stock
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
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
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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Business Money Saving
Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged.
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Heart Love Mistake Task Undertake
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
Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Deceive Destruction Ourselves Peace
We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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Birthday Funny Grow Up
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
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
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Forgiveness Life Positive
We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
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Equality Ships Wisdom

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