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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.

Bernard Baruch

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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Communication Ideas Important
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
Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.
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Catchy Facts Opinion
Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
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Art Bucketful Courage Creativity Generous Imagination Teacher
Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
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Fields Sticks Trying
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.
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Approach Problem Views
The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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Men War Weaponry
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
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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Business Money Saving
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
Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
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Heart Soul Whatever
Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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Cheerful Hats Honest Skill Success Summer Wintertime
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Cutting Loss Yield
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
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Book Friends Giving Old
Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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Full Jobs Speculate Time
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
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Experience Man Numbers Retirement Teacher
We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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Choices Dead Quick Today
Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Deceive Destruction Ourselves Peace
Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Heart People Running Thing
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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Ethics Responsibility Tomorrow
Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
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Being Fortune Quickly Right Sense Wrong
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Men Power Reasoning
A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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Ark Country Dangerous Favor Future Repudiate
Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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Cold Deceived Midst Today War
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
Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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Listen Most Mostly People Successful
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

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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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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