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The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.


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JEFF MORTIMER People are after simplicity now. They learned over the past five years or so that investing isn't as...
JEFF MORTIMER The surprise of the quarter was really the strength of small-cap market when most pundits were sayin...
JEFF MORTIMER Schwab Hedged Equity has a core belief: There is an upward drift to the stock market.
JEFF MORTIMER Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do
RAYMOND MORTIMER Impeachment should not be used simply because you disagree with a person's policies. If you disagree...
REP. DAVID ZUCKERMAN Clearly, it wasn't that high a priority.
REP. DAVID ZUCKERMAN Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556 Sin is not only manife...
MORTIMER J. ADLER When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have ever...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much a...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anth...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckl...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, sayin...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedo...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER 'Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication.'
SIR JOHN MORTIMER In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how man...
MORTIMER J. ADLER Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
MORTIMER J. ADLER Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
MORTIMER J. ADLER Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we cont...
MORTIMER J. ADLER In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER Perhaps you are beginning to see how essential a part of reading it is to be perplexed and know it. ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER