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Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.

Bernard Baruch

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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Country Decision Light Path Stock
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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Disappointment Freedom Keepin Promise
Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation…
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Lying Peace Salvation Work
To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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Age Birthday Years
Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
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Being Fortune Quickly Right Sense Wrong
Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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Cold Deceived Midst Today War
Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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Always Hardest Investing Times
Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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College Little Past Philosophy
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
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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Communication Ideas Important
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 play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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Forests Insider Play Tree
No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
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Anger Humiliate Men
A man can’t retire his experience.
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Ciphers Experience Retirement
Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Loss Men Power Reason Something Trying
Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
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Funny Inspirational Life
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
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
We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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Choices Dead Quick Today
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
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
I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
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Men Mistake Motivation Prove Skill
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 main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
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Funny Humor Men
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
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
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Blessing Discipline Freedom
Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
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Fall Higher Insurance Money Pension Unemployment

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