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I made my money by selling too soon.

Bernard Baruch

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
Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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Always Hardest Investing Times
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 have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.
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Learn Men Observation
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
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
Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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Full Jobs Speculate Time
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
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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Disappointment Freedom Keepin Promise
We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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Birthday Funny Grow Up
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
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
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
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
The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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Men War Weaponry
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

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