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When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.

Bernard Baruch

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
Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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Forests Insider Play Tree
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Hammers Nails Political
We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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Birthday Funny Grow Up
I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .
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Effort Experience Son
Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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Cold Deceived Midst Today War
Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Deceive Destruction Ourselves Peace
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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Catchy Facts Opinion
Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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Answers Belief Humility
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
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Cutting Loss Yield
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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Business Experiment Fool Government
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
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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Business Money Saving
A man can’t retire his experience.
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Ciphers Experience Retirement
We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
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Equality Ships Wisdom
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
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
Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Inspirational Leadership Teacher
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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Government Individuality People
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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Business Future Men
Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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Bears Investment Parks
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
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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Country Decision Light Path Stock
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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Beggar Belief Boys Dangerous Illusion Shoeshine
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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Communication Ideas Important
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

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