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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.

Bernard Baruch

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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Communication Ideas Important
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
I made my money by selling too soon.
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Business Finance Selling
Don’t pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.
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Friends Loyal Newspaper Pity Prejudice Quick Read
Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
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Heart Soul Whatever
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
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
All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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Investing Movement Psychology
Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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Doors Luck Player
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
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
Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Heart People Running Thing
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
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Funny Humor Men
Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old.
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Aged Anything Enemy Inflation Old
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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Disappointment Freedom Keepin Promise

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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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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