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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.

Bernard Baruch

Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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College Little Past Philosophy
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
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
All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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Investing Movement Psychology
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
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Cutting Loss Yield
The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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Men War Weaponry
Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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Agreement Lying Race
Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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Answers Belief Humility
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
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Funny Humor Men
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
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
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
When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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Country News Observes Pages
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
Never follow the crowd.
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Inspirational Self Esteem Self Respect
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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Disappointment Freedom Keepin Promise
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
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
It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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Difficult Knows Sells
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
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Forgiveness Life Positive
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
You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.
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Blame Complaining Overcoming
A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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Ark Country Dangerous Favor Future Repudiate
None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. … The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Art Disappointment Lying
Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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Listen Most Mostly People Successful

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