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Baruch Spinoza

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Just figure out what works for you!
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QUI-GON TO ANAKIN Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
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BERNARD BARUCH In America, if you put your mind to it you can have anything you want. You just can't have everythin...
BERNARD BARUCH The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
BERNARD BARUCH Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
BERNARD BARUCH Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use i...
BERNARD BARUCH Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
BERNARD BARUCH To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
BERNARD BARUCH One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before ...
BERNARD BARUCH Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
BERNARD BARUCH I made my money by selling too soon.
BERNARD BARUCH Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own f...
BERNARD BARUCH Effects of Fear and Anger on Perceived Risks of Terrorism. People want to be treated as adults. They...
BARUCH FISCHHOFF With things of a human origin, it's harder to objectively figure out the probabilities. To the best ...
BARUCH FISCHHOFF This is a case where they did an exceptionally good job on the natural science and a really poor job...
BARUCH FISCHHOFF I don't know if the learning is as systematic as it needs to be.
BARUCH FISCHHOFF Are we prepared to lose a major city every year? ... It's cowardice not to ask the question and cowa...
BARUCH FISCHHOFF I don't see anybody talking in terms of shame. I don't see any soul-searching.
BARUCH FISCHHOFF The medical experts' estimates suggest this is a bigger risk than anything else we are facing.
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