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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.

Bernard Baruch

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Hammers Nails Political
All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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Investing Movement Psychology
Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Heart People Running Thing
I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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Imagination Inspirational Intelligence
Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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Agreement Lying Race
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
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
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Men Power Reasoning
Society can progress if men’s labors show a profit – if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.
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Loss Men Produce Profit Progress Show Yield
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
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Men State Thinking Zero
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
Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old.
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Aged Anything Enemy Inflation Old
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
Never follow the crowd.
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Inspirational Self Esteem Self Respect
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
Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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People Praise Quick

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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