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The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.

Bernard Baruch

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
“The king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows? Maybe the horse will learn to fly.” My philosophy is like that man’s. I take the long-range view.
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Die Furthermore Horse King Learn Philosophy
A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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Ark Country Dangerous Favor Future Repudiate
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
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
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
Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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Agreement Sanction Secure Tranquil Understanding
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
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
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Character Technology Thinking
All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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Investing Movement Psychology
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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Disappointment Freedom Keepin Promise
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
You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.
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Communism Government Important Political Struggle
Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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People Praise Quick
Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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Attention Pay President
Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
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Ethics Responsibility Tomorrow
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Cutting Loss Yield
Never follow the crowd.
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Inspirational Self Esteem Self Respect
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
Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters – or anyone – bringing gifts of ‘inside’ information or tips. Don’t try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best.
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Barbers Best Beware Field Information Know Stick Waiter
You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.
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Blame Complaining Overcoming
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
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Inspirational Jobs Work
Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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Listen Most Mostly People Successful
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
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
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Funny Humor Men
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
Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
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Heart Soul Whatever

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