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.
BERNARD BARUCHKnowing 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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Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
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To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
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We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.
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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
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Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.
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Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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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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Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
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There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
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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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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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