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219 Biographer Quotes

The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.

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There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.

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A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.

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The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.

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By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity.

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In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms.

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Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker.

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Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we won't see until the bear market comes.

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When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market. They're all papered over by the rise.

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A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market.

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I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments.

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We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario.

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One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.

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The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform.

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Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.

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There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.
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I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

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I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.
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Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

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The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.

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Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

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Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them.

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The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.
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Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

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After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.

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One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital.

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I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.

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I was quite bowled over by Isabel Wilkerson's masterly saga, 'The Warmth of Other Suns.'

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I felt blessed by the existence of Horace Porter's 'Campaigning With Grant.'
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It's a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize.

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I always sympathize with people who complain about the length of my books. It would take me a year to get through one of them.

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Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don't really understand its full significance.

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There were 900 books on Washington when I began writing on him.
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Hamilton was extremely combative. Not only was he combative, but he also overreacted to anything he perceived as a threat or a criticism.

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The thing with all the Founding Fathers, one of the most common words they used was 'posterity.' They were constantly referring to posterity.

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Every time I wrote fiction, I was discouraged, and every time I wrote nonfiction, I was encouraged.

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Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.

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Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

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No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

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In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd,It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

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Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.

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Art can bring us consolation as individuals,” he said, “but it is powerless against reality.

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Once more my pity had been stronger than my will.

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Once a man has found himself there is nothing in this world that he can lose. And once he has understood the humanity in himself, he will understand all human beings.

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We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.

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Maybe everything’s not so hard, maybe life is so much easier than I thought, you just need courage, you just need to have a sense of yourself, then you’ll discover your hidden resources.

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It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one’s own existence.

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Nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing.

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There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.

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It remains an irrefutable law of history that contemporaries are denied a recognition of the early beginnings of the great movements which determine their times.

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