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The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

Bernard Baruch

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.
BERNARD BARUCH

Approach Problem Views
When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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Country News Observes Pages
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
You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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Blow Light Shining
“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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Die Furthermore Horse King Learn Philosophy
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Men Power Reasoning
A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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Ark Country Dangerous Favor Future Repudiate
You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.
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Blame Complaining Overcoming
To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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Age Birthday Years
Don’t pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.
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Friends Loyal Newspaper Pity Prejudice Quick Read
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
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
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Funny Humor Men
Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
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Business Experiment Fool Government
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
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
Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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Agreement Lying Race

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