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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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''God is Love,'' we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.
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... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
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A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
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A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
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A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
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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, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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