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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

You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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Blow Light Shining
Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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Always Hardest Investing Times
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
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
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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Change Grappled Problem Reality Truth
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Cutting Loss Yield
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
Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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Agreement Lying Race
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
Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
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Fields Sticks Trying
The path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago … How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom – the clothing of the grave – that some people believe she is already fitted for.
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Ago Clothes Grave Hundred People Some Years Young
The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today’s earnings for the future.
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Age Enemy Essence
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 pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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Attention Pay President
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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Good Liars Times Timing
Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don’t be envious, be honest with yourself so you will be honest with others, be helpful, interest yourself in your job.
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Calm Independent Jobs Keep Polite Success Tidy

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

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