"Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory."
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"We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time."
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"To me - old age is always ten years older than I am."
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"Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players."
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"You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache."
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"I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men."
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"Never play tips from "insiders." They can't see the forest for the trees."
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"I never lost money by turning a profit."
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"We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state."
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"Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth."
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"Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk."
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"When the outlook is steeped in pessimism, I remind myself, "Two and two still make four, and you can't keep humankind down for long.""
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"If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace."
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"Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul."
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"Bears don't live on Park Avenue."
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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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"Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster."
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"Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four."
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"Don't speculate unless you can make it a full time job."
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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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