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.
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When you're a biographer, you want to explore the very things that your subject didn't care to talk about.
Interpretation
A biographer seeks the hidden truths of their subject's life.
This quote emphasizes the role of a biographer as someone who delves into the aspects of a person's life that may have been overlooked or avoided by the subject themselves. A successful biography often reveals deeper insights into a person's character, motivations, and experiences that are not readily shared, thereby providing a fuller understanding of their life story.
In practice
During a writing workshop, this quote could inspire participants to dig deeper into their subjects.
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 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.
I find that when I come upon something that I think is a historical revelation, I have the sort of adrenaline rush that I imagine a gambler gets in Las Vegas when he hits the jackpot. It's still tremendously exciting to me, and I think all of my peers in the business feel the same way.
Education fails unless the Three R's at one end of the school spectrum lead ultimately to the Four P's at the other-Preparati on for Earning, Preparation for Living, Preparation for Understanding, Preparation for Participation in the problems involved in the making of a better world.
Mathematics is not a spectator sport!
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
Future generation is the most important thing.
Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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