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As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#bull #bull market #crime #goes #great

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. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#american #american public #because #between #entrepreneurs

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. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#bank #banker #became #because #broker

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#dangerous #effects #hold #individual #market

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#frail #gertrude #gertrude stein #hemingway #married

I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else. ↗

— Julia Child

#dry #duck #else #first #french

If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized. ↗

— Jacques Chirac

#creations #culturally #economically #generation #language

When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#dancing #did #even #ever #experience

I can't say enough about how I'm against drugs. Be smart, think about it, look at what it does to people, look at how much you have to experience in life and be courageous enough to do everything you want to without that chemical help. ↗

— Erika Christensen

#against #chemical #courageous #does #enough

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#because #grow #i #married #me