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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.

Bernard Baruch

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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Believe Maturity Path Years
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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Communication Ideas Important
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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Expectations Thinking Work
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Destruction Peace War World
I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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Imagination Inspirational Intelligence
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.
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Disarmament Past Peace Years
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
I made my money by selling too soon.
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Business Finance Selling
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
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Action Error Life Motivational Private
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
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
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Cold Shooting War
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
Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
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Art Bucketful Courage Creativity Generous Imagination Teacher
A man can’t retire his experience.
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Ciphers Experience Retirement
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
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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Available Detector Fingerprint Hate Instruments Lying Men Shiver Washing

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