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Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation... Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Bernard Baruch

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Bernard Baruch
Age: 94 †
Born: 1870
Born: August 19
Died: 1965
Died: June 20
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