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You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.

Bernard Baruch

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
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 longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England
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Believe Country Information Wall
We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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Choices Dead Quick Today
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
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
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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Disappointment Freedom Keepin Promise
I never lost money by turning a profit.
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Lost Lost Money Profit
I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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Imagination Inspirational Intelligence
Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation…
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Lying Peace Salvation Work
Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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Listen Most Mostly People Successful
You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.
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Blame Complaining Overcoming
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
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Funny Humor Men
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
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
Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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