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"The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification."
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"It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about."
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"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions."
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"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."
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"Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument."
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"Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them."
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"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."
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"The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it."
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"The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."
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"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."
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"When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem."
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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."
Life
"The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions."
Family
"Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks."
Responsibility
"Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance."
Money
"I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past."
History
"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."
Finance
"A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse."
Money
"The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification."
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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."
People
"Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity."
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