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Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

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
The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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Men War Weaponry
Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters – or anyone – bringing gifts of ‘inside’ information or tips. Don’t try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best.
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Barbers Best Beware Field Information Know Stick Waiter
A man can’t retire his experience.
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Ciphers Experience Retirement
I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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Imagination Inspirational Intelligence
Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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Forests Insider Play Tree
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
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
It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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Difficult Knows Sells
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
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Brain Passion Prejudice Sharp
Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.
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Anybody Consciousness Failure Mistake Nothing
Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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People Praise Quick
I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
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Men Mistake Motivation Prove Skill
Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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Cheerful Hats Honest Skill Success Summer Wintertime
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Courage Encouraging Meaningful
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

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