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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.

Bernard Baruch

I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
BERNARD BARUCH

Imagination Inspirational Intelligence
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
We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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Choices Dead Quick Today
Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old.
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Aged Anything Enemy Inflation Old
Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot–or if you do not know how to improve on things–then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.
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Change Fact Improve Knowing Situation Thing
You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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Blow Light Shining
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
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Character Technology Thinking
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
Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.
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Catchy Facts Opinion
Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Inspirational Leadership Teacher
We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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Birthday Funny Grow Up
I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .
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Effort Experience Son
Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Heart People Running Thing
Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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Cheerful Hats Honest Skill Success Summer Wintertime
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
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Funny Humor Men
“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

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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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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