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Ron Chernow
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A few actresses have all but set up shop as women of a certain age who attract younger lovers. I think of Susan Sarandon, Cameron Diaz and Isabelle Huppert.
Roger Ebert
Actress
Age
Attract
Cameron
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In the 1920s, Wall Street was a world that was really dominated by professional speculators and stock pools. These people had a monopoly over information.
Ron Chernow
1920s
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On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.
Roger Ebert
Ancient
Beautiful
Evolved
Gone
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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not a choice. You must take it. The only question is how.
Henry Ward Beecher
God
Man
Accept life
Choice
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Each book has a secret history of ways and means.
Henry Ward Beecher
Each book
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Means
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Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.
Roger Ebert
Ever
Least
Nothing
Romances
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When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways.
Ron Chernow
Across
America
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There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
Henry Ward Beecher
Schoolmasters
Everybody
Employ
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If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.
Roger Ebert
Act
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Sense
Something
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Henry Ward Beecher
Ability
Convert ideas
Secret
Success
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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.
Ron Chernow
Century
Course
Expectancy
Happened
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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.
Ron Chernow
Ability
Age
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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.
Ron Chernow
Approaching
Baby
Boom
Discovered
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We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.
Roger Ebert
Blessed
Condition
First
Hazardous
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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beecher
Heart
Man rich
According to
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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.
Ron Chernow
1970s
Assets
Because
Before
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In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms.
Ron Chernow
1970s
Banks
Household
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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.
Ron Chernow
American
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Banker
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Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.
Rosa Luxemburg
Against
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Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.
Rosa Luxemburg
Advance
Blood
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The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.
Rosa Luxemburg
Classes
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Course
Every
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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.
Ron Chernow
Bull
BullMarket
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The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.
Rosa Luxemburg
Creating
Development
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Masses
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The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.
Rosa Luxemburg
Becomes
Democracy
Destinies
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We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we’re too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.
Herb Brooks
Be dreaming
Kids
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Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.
Rosa Luxemburg
Action
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City
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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.
Ron Chernow
About
Aspects
Different
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The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.
Rosa Luxemburg
Built
Decisive
Element
Final
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Ron Chernow
Capital
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Easy
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Under the leaden sway of Alexander III's government, the silence of the graveyard prevailed. Russian society, equally discouraged by the collapse of all hopes for peaceful reforms and by the apparent ineffectiveness of the revolutionary movement, was in the grip of a mood of depression and resignation.
Rosa Luxemburg
Alexander
Apparent
Collapse
Depression
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People finally understood that the role of the social-democratic party rests on its conscious leadership of the mass struggle against the existing society, a struggle that must reckon with the vital, necessary conditions of capitalist society.
Rosa Luxemburg
Against
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Ron Chernow
Back
Carry
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You’re only as good as your values
Herb Brooks
As good
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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.
Ron Chernow
Age
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Amazing
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The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society.
Rosa Luxemburg
Act
Classes
Constitution
Constitutional
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Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.
Rosa Luxemburg
Created
Form
Framework
Last
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You might lack wisdom in areas such as, business, marriage, interpersonal relationships, leadership; work and so forth; but that should not make you feel despondent. Ask God for this wisdom and He will give you generously.
Shepherd Bushiri
Wisdom
God
Forth
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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.
Ron Chernow
After
Aide
Association
Because
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Rosa Luxemburg
Acquire
Capitalist
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Era
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Good governance is crucial and as President, I also have no intention of curtailing anyone’s freedom and arresting people arbitrarily, as long as they respect the rule of law and remain non-violent.
Peter Mutharika
Remain
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I was quite bowled over by Isabel Wilkerson's masterly saga, 'The Warmth of Other Suns.'
Ron Chernow
Other
Over
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Herbert Hoover
Only person
Distinction
Depression
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There is no history that can be wished away in human existence. Colonialism was a complex history that cannot be erased by demolishing a statue of an imperialist who built the very halls in which you sit to learn about evils of imperialism.
Peter Mutharika
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Ron Chernow
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It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
Herbert Hoover
Paradox
Dictator
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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.
Ron Chernow
Also
Anything
Criticism
Extremely
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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.
Ron Chernow
Common
Constantly
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Every time I wrote fiction, I was discouraged, and every time I wrote nonfiction, I was encouraged.
Ron Chernow
Discouraged
Encouraged
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Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
Herbert Hoover
Fishing
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