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To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.

Bernard Baruch

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
We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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Choices Dead Quick Today
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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Cities Industries Land Roots Trees
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Destruction Peace War World
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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Expectations Thinking Work
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
We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
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Bridges Crosses Economy
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
Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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Cold Deceived Midst Today War
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Cutting Loss Yield
You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.
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Communism Government Important Political Struggle
All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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Investing Movement Psychology
No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
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Anger Humiliate Men
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
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Courage Encouraging Meaningful
A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.
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Boys Keep Leader Political Time

To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.

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