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Bernard Baruch
Age: 94 †
Born: 1870
Born: August 19
Died: 1965
Died: June 20
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There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
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The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
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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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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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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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If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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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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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
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Bears don't live on Park Avenue.
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The stock market is people.
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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
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I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research because I believe in it. I am interested in arthritis because I have it.
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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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Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
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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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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.
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