Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation…
BERNARD BARUCHWhen 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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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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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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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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Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made?
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Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
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Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with.
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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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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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The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England
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We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today’s earnings for the future.
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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged.
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Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
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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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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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Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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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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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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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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A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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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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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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