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If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Bernard Baruch

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Bernard Baruch
Age: 94 †
Born: 1870
Born: August 19
Died: 1965
Died: June 20
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Camden
South Carolina
Bernard M. Baruch
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A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future. What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made? In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world's greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.
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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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