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"I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair."
"There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies."
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"Now how many people in their heart of hearts in that community want to see the demise of this country? How many would cheer, not out loud maybe, but in their heart when things like 9/11 occur and I'll tell you; it's a majority among them."
"You've got people who are looking at DNA evidence and other evidence like that and they're ignoring it."
"Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be."
"Well, first, the situation in Afghanistan is much better than it was. But there is no comparison between Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq has a bureaucracy, Iraq has wealth. Iraq has an educated class of people who are positioned to come in and take over."
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"In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms."
"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."
"I think those who invest in mutual funds want someone else to do the thinking for them. But the fact that they can move the money around the family of mutual funds just through a phone call lets them feel that they can play tycoons."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States."
"In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks."
"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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