Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we won't see until the bear market comes.
Ron ChernowRead
Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.
Interpretation
Ron Chernow attributes vast intellectual prowess to Hamilton, highlighting his impact on multiple areas of thought.
This quote by Ron Chernow emphasizes the remarkable breadth and depth of Alexander Hamilton's intellect during the 18th century. It suggests that Hamilton was not only influential in politics and economics but also engaged with countless important issues of his time, reflecting a brilliance that contributed significantly to the foundation of modern America.
In practice
During a speech about the importance of multifaceted education.
Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we won't see until the bear market comes.
The story of Alexander Hamilton lends itself to hip-hop treatment. Hamilton's personality is driven and unrelenting, and the music has that same quality. The music and the man mirror each other.
Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don't really understand its full significance.
Strange as it may seem, George Washington's life has now been so minutely documented that we know far more about him than did his own friends, family, and contemporaries.
When you're a biographer, you want to explore the very things that your subject didn't care to talk about.
When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market. They're all papered over by the rise.
Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.
Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.
Many people in their teens wonder about these big questions - what's the meaning of life, what are we doing here - then somewhere in their 20s, they seem to say, 'I'll just get married. I'll just have kids. I'll get back to that later.' But they never do. For me, it kept boiling.
There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.
The pavilion that seems to intercept divine aid does not cover God but occasionally covers us. God is never hidden, yet sometimes we are, covered by a pavilion of motivations that draw us away from God and make Him seem distant and inaccessible.
I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.
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