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We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

Bernard Baruch

Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
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Funny Inspirational Life
Become more humble as the market goes your way.
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Humble Market More Way
The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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Men War Weaponry
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
Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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People Praise Quick
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
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Destruction Peace War World
You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.
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Blame Complaining Overcoming
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
I made my money by selling too soon.
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Business Finance Selling
We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.
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Contribute Needs Socialism
Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
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Inspirational Success Talking
A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty’s horse to fly within the year – on the condition that if he didn’t succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. “Within a year,” the man explained later.
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Assuring Die Explain Horse Kings Later Majesty Man Philosophy
We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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Choices Dead Quick Today
Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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Attention Pay President
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
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
Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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Agreement Lying Race
Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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Forests Insider Play Tree
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
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
Society can progress if men’s labors show a profit – if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.
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Loss Men Produce Profit Progress Show Yield
Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Inspirational Leadership Teacher
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
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
Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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Answers Belief Humility
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

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