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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Bernard Baruch

Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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Attention Pay President
Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
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Funny Inspirational Life
Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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Agreement Sanction Secure Tranquil Understanding
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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Communication Ideas Important
Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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Listen Most Mostly People Successful
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
Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Heart People Running Thing
The path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago … How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom – the clothing of the grave – that some people believe she is already fitted for.
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Ago Clothes Grave Hundred People Some Years Young
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
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.
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Disarmament Past Peace Years
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
What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made?
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Country Made Record Reliance Sturdy
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.
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Government Individuality People
Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
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Economy Increase Men Produce
Become more humble as the market goes your way.
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Humble Market More Way
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
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Book Friends Giving Old

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