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"You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk."
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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

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

"The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world."

"The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort."

"As one of the voices of rural New Yorkers in Congress, I am committed to supporting efforts such as these that will make a real impact in people's lives."

"Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do."

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


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


"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."


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


"Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market."


"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."


"After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation."


"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."


"In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks."


"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."
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