Bernard Baruch

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• Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

  Speech before the Senate’s Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program (1948)

  • War & Peace

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

  Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (14 June 1946)

  • Hope
  • War & Peace

• To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

  On his 85th birthday, as quoted in The Observer [London] (21 August 1955)

  • Age
  • Comedy

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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