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Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.

Bernard Baruch

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
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Inspirational Jobs Work
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
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
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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Business Money Saving
Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
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Fall Higher Insurance Money Pension Unemployment
I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.
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Giving Keep Middle Moving Top
Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Heart People Running Thing
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
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
Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don’t be envious, be honest with yourself so you will be honest with others, be helpful, interest yourself in your job.
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Calm Independent Jobs Keep Polite Success Tidy
Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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People Praise Quick
I never lost money by turning a profit.
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Lost Lost Money Profit
You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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Blow Light Shining
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
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

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