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Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.

Bernard Baruch

Gold has worked down from Alexander’s time… When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
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Believe Mistaken Something Two Years
Financial storm definitely passed.
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Depression Financial Great Storm
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Men Power Reasoning
Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
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Business Experiment Fool Government
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
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
We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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Birthday Funny Grow Up
Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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Forests Insider Play Tree
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
There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
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Health Incurable Men Science Things
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
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
America has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…
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Country Decision Light Path Stock
A man can’t retire his experience.
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Ciphers Experience Retirement
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
I never lost money by turning a profit.
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Lost Lost Money Profit
To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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Age Birthday Years
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
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
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Blessing Discipline Freedom
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
You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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Blow Light Shining
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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Expectations Thinking Work
No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
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Anger Humiliate Men
Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all…
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Knowing Passion Thinking
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Cutting Loss Yield
Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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Cold Deceived Midst Today War
You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
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Deceive Entitled Fact Like Situation

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