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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

Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all…
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Knowing Passion Thinking
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
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
I never lost money by turning a profit.
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Lost Lost Money Profit
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Men Power Reasoning
Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Heart People Running Thing
In trading/ investing it’s not about how much you make, but how much you don’t lose
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Investing Loses Trading
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
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
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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
Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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Doors Luck Player
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
Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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Agreement Lying Race
Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.
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Government Individuality People
I made my money by selling too soon.
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Business Finance Selling
I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
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Men Mistake Motivation Prove Skill

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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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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