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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…

Bernard Baruch

Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Inspirational Leadership Teacher
Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
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Ethics Responsibility Tomorrow
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
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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Communication Ideas Important
When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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Country News Observes Pages
I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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Imagination Inspirational Intelligence
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
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
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
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Experience Man Numbers Retirement Teacher
You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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Blow Light Shining
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
The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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Men War Weaponry
A man can’t retire his experience.
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Ciphers Experience Retirement
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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Good Liars Times Timing
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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Catchy Facts Opinion
We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
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Equality Ships Wisdom

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