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One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

Bernard Baruch

Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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Bears Investment Parks
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
Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.
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Anybody Consciousness Failure Mistake Nothing
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
Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Inspirational Leadership Teacher
A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.
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Boys Keep Leader Political Time
America has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…
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Country Decision Light Path Stock
So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.
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Available Detector Fingerprint Hate Instruments Lying Men Shiver Washing
We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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Birthday Funny Grow Up
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
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Hammers Nails Political
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
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
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Courage Encouraging Meaningful
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
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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Disarmament Past Peace Years
Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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Always Hardest Investing Times
Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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Full Jobs Speculate Time
I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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Imagination Inspirational Intelligence
You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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Blow Light Shining
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 try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can’t be done except by liars.
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Bottom Business Done Liars Trying
Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Deceive Destruction Ourselves Peace
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
Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
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Economy Increase Men Produce
To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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Age Birthday Years
“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.
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