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We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.

Bernard Baruch

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
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Character Technology Thinking
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Men Power Reasoning
Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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Bears Investment Parks
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
Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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Full Jobs Speculate Time
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
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
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
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
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 art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Courage Encouraging Meaningful
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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Believe Maturity Path Years
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
To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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Age Birthday Years
Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Inspirational Leadership Teacher
The stock market is people.
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Market People Stock

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