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Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Bernard Baruch

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
Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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Bears Investment Parks
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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Disappointment Freedom Keepin Promise
Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot–or if you do not know how to improve on things–then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.
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Change Fact Improve Knowing Situation Thing
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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Art Bucketful Courage Creativity Generous Imagination Teacher
Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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Listen Most Mostly People Successful
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
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
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
Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Loss Men Power Reason Something Trying
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
We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.
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Contribute Needs Socialism
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
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.
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Approach Problem Views
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
Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Heart People Running Thing
Don’t pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.
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Friends Loyal Newspaper Pity Prejudice Quick Read
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Men Power Reasoning
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Courage Encouraging Meaningful
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
Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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Doors Luck Player
You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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Blow Light Shining
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
It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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Difficult Knows Sells
Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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College Little Past Philosophy
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

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