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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Bernard Baruch

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
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
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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Communication Ideas Important
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 pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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Attention Pay President
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
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Action Error Life Motivational Private
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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Learn Men Observation
A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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Ark Country Dangerous Favor Future Repudiate
Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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Full Jobs Speculate Time
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
You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.
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Communism Government Important Political Struggle
The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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Men War Weaponry
You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.
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Blame Complaining Overcoming
We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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Birthday Funny Grow Up
Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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Doors Luck Player
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

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

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