"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."

Fear, Baby, Retirement, Will

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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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"Then the dwarves forgot their joy and their confident boasts of a moment before and cowered down in fright. Smaug was still to be reckoned with. It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Fear, Caution, Fight, Survival

"I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Fear, Death, Reality, Courage

"Fear is a disease of mind we inherit from society."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Fear, Mind, Society, Doubt

"Fear deprives us the fullness of existence."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Fear, Deprives, Existence, Loss

"Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Fear, Mystery, Danger

"A monster's worst fear is of being found."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Fear, Regret, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it."

Jim Butcher, American Author

Fear, Survival, Warning, Life

"Until you break through the walls of fear, you will not be able to reach the door of opportunity."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Fear, Opportunity, Growth, Change

"How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next-if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions-you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Fear, Ignorance, Consequences, Love

"So many horrid Ghosts."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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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."

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"The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions."

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"Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks."

Responsibility, Safety

"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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"I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past."

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"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, Financial, London, Paris

"A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse."

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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."

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"Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity."

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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."

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