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I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

Bernard Baruch

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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Change Grappled Problem Reality Truth
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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Covenant Greatest Nothingness Scarcely Unexampled
What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made?
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Country Made Record Reliance Sturdy
No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
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Anger Humiliate Men
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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Blessing Discipline Freedom
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
Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation…
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Lying Peace Salvation Work
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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Ethics Responsibility Tomorrow
America has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…
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Believe Maturity Path Years
Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
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Always Hope Investing Men Soaring Two
Financial storm definitely passed.
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Depression Financial Great Storm
Never follow the crowd.
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Inspirational Self Esteem Self Respect
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
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Book Friends Giving Old
Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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Answers Belief Humility
Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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People Praise Quick
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

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

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