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861 Historian Quotes

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

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I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.

Century Course Expectancy Happened
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Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius.

Being Come Creative Faces
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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.

Ability Age Banking BankingSystem
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I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.

About Contemplate Enjoy Facts
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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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We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.

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

Better Lot Market Money
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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.

American Bank Banker Became
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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.

Any Bear Bull BullMarket
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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.

Bull BullMarket Crash Long
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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.

Affair American AmericanPublic Because
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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.

About Academics Among Dead
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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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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

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I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

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For no one, in our long decline, So dusty, spiteful and divided, Had quite such pleasant friends as mine, Or loved them half as much as I did.

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The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

Control Production Wealth Human life
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From quiet homes and first beginning Out to the undiscovered ends There's nothing worth the wear of winning But laughter and the love of friends.

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Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

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Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

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If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus...

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