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“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

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Destruction Peace War World
Never follow the crowd.
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Inspirational Self Esteem Self Respect
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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Good Liars Times Timing
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’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.
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Giving Keep Middle Moving Top
Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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Agreement Sanction Secure Tranquil Understanding
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
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Inspirational Jobs Work
Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Inspirational Leadership Teacher
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
Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.
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Atom Domain Evil Instead Lies Lying Taught
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
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
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Funny Humor Men
Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
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Heart Soul Whatever
Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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Agreement Lying Race
To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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Age Birthday Years
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
Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
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Business Experiment Fool Government
Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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Doors Luck Player
Gold has worked down from Alexander’s time… When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
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Believe Mistaken Something Two Years
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Cutting Loss Yield
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
There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
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Health Incurable Men Science Things
Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.
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Cities Industries Land Roots Trees
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
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
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Cold Shooting War
Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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Answers Belief Humility

“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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