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Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.

Bernard Baruch

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
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
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
Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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Cold Deceived Midst Today War
Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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Bears Investment Parks
When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
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Beggar Belief Boys Dangerous Illusion Shoeshine
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
Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Heart People Running Thing
Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all…
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Knowing Passion Thinking
There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
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Health Incurable Men Science Things
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
Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
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Fall Higher Insurance Money Pension Unemployment
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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Business Future Men
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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Disappointment Freedom Keepin Promise
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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