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Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.

Bernard Baruch

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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Birthday Funny Grow Up
Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot–or if you do not know how to improve on things–then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.
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Change Fact Improve Knowing Situation Thing
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
To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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Age Birthday Years
Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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Answers Belief Humility
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
Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Heart People Running Thing
I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .
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Effort Experience Son
Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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People Praise Quick
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
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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Good Liars Times Timing
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
Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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Cold Deceived Midst Today War
No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
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Anger Humiliate Men
We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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Choices Dead Quick Today
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with.
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Change Grappled Problem Reality Truth
All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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Investing Movement Psychology
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
When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
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Beggar Belief Boys Dangerous Illusion Shoeshine
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
Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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Cheerful Hats Honest Skill Success Summer Wintertime
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
Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
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Heart Soul Whatever
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
Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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Doors Luck Player
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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Expectations Thinking Work
Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
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Always Hope Investing Men Soaring Two

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