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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

Bernard Baruch

Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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Cheerful Hats Honest Skill Success Summer Wintertime
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
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
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
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
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
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Men Power Reasoning
Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Deceive Destruction Ourselves Peace
Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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Agreement Lying Race
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
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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Good Liars Times Timing
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
We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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Choices Dead Quick Today
Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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Full Jobs Speculate Time
Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Heart People Running Thing

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

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