The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
BERNARD BARUCHWe grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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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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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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Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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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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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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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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Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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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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When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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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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The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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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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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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A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty’s horse to fly within the year – on the condition that if he didn’t succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. “Within a year,” the man explained later.
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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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Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
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We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
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Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
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Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can’t be done except by liars.
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The stock market is people.
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Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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