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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.

Bernard Baruch

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
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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Business Future Men
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
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
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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Communication Ideas Important
Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged.
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Heart Love Mistake Task Undertake
Financial storm definitely passed.
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Depression Financial Great Storm
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 have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.
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Learn Men Observation
Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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Attention Pay President
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
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
Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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Bears Investment Parks
All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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Investing Movement Psychology
Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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College Little Past Philosophy
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

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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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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