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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.

Bernard Baruch

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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Assuring Die Explain Horse Kings Later Majesty Man Philosophy
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
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
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
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
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
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
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Men Power Reasoning
It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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Difficult Knows Sells
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Hammers Nails Political
Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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Agreement Lying Race
Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Heart People Running Thing
Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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People Praise Quick
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
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Destruction Peace War World
None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. … The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Art Disappointment Lying

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