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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.

Bernard Baruch

Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
BERNARD BARUCH

Good Liars Times Timing
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
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Book Friends Giving Old
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
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.
BERNARD BARUCH

Government Individuality People
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
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
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
We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
BERNARD BARUCH

Bridges Crosses Economy
Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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Doors Luck Player
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
To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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Age Birthday Years
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
Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
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Funny Inspirational Life
We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
BERNARD BARUCH

Equality Ships Wisdom
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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Disappointment Freedom Keepin Promise
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
BERNARD BARUCH

Blessing Discipline Freedom

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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