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If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Bernard Baruch

Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
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Inspirational Success Talking
We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
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Equality Ships Wisdom
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
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Funny Humor Men
Financial storm definitely passed.
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Depression Financial Great Storm
Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.
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Catchy Facts Opinion
Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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Answers Belief Humility
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
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Men State Thinking Zero
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
Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.
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Atom Domain Evil Instead Lies Lying Taught
When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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Country News Observes Pages
To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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Age Birthday Years
Never follow the crowd.
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Inspirational Self Esteem Self Respect
Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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Always Hardest Investing Times
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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Good Liars Times Timing
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
Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all…
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Knowing Passion Thinking
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
We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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Choices Dead Quick Today
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
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
Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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Forests Insider Play Tree
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
I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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Imagination Inspirational Intelligence
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
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
Don’t pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.
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Friends Loyal Newspaper Pity Prejudice Quick Read
In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world’s greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.
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Covenant Greatest Nothingness Scarcely Unexampled

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