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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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.
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Change of state is not the point; recognizing the Changeless is the point, recognizing primordial Emptiness is the point, and if you are breathing and vaguely awake, that state of consciousness will do just fine.
The most interesting conversation is not about why Donald Trump lies. Many public figures lie, and he's only a severe example of a common type. The interesting conversation concerns how we come to accept those lies.
Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to prevent their realization.
God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.
While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.
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