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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.

Bernard Baruch

The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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Men War Weaponry
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Courage Encouraging Meaningful
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
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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Good Liars Times Timing
You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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Blow Light Shining
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
A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty’s horse to fly within the year – on the condition that if he didn’t succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. “Within a year,” the man explained later.
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Assuring Die Explain Horse Kings Later Majesty Man Philosophy
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
I made my money by selling too soon.
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Business Finance Selling
I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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Imagination Inspirational Intelligence
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
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
The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England
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Believe Country Information Wall
No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
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Anger Humiliate Men
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
Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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Doors Luck Player

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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