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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.
Capital Country Easy Find
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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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Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?
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Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

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The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

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My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

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Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

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I hate every human being on earth. I feel that everyone is beneath me, and I feel they should all worship me. That's what I told my kids.

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There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.

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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.

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I try all things, I achieve what I can.

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Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.

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For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men

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Ignorance is the parent of fear.

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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

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Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.

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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.

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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.

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Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.

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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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