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Ron Chernow

"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."

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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."

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"Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself."

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"I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced."

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"At three in the morning the gaudy paint is off that old whore, the world, and she has no nose and a glass eye. Gaiety becomes hollow and brittle, as in Poe's castle surrounded by the Red Death. Horror is destroyed by boredom. Love is a dream."

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"Fear attracts attack."

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"It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black."

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Brennan Manning

"Throughout the evolution of mankind our very much primordial ancestors had one thing in common, it was ignorance. This ignorance gave birth to fear. Fear of the unknown became a quintessential element of their daily survival. To ace the intensity of the fear, rituals of worship arose."

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Brennan Manning

"We are too scared to be real!"

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Brennan Manning

"Monsters are real and ghosts are real too they live inside us and sometimes they win."

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Brennan Manning

"Fear is a society induced state of confusion."

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"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

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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."
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"In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms."
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"If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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."
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"Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity."
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"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."
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