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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

Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
BERNARD BARUCH

Agreement Lying Race
“The king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows? Maybe the horse will learn to fly.” My philosophy is like that man’s. I take the long-range view.
BERNARD BARUCH

Die Furthermore Horse King Learn Philosophy
You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
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Deceive Entitled Fact Like Situation
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
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
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Inspirational Jobs Work
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
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
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
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
Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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People Praise Quick
Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Deceive Destruction Ourselves Peace
All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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Investing Movement Psychology
Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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Attention Pay President
We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
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Bridges Crosses Economy
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
BERNARD BARUCH

Forgiveness Life Positive
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

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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