These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.


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EMILY MORTIMER
Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.
EMILY MORTIMER
I wake up early. At 6:30 A.M., I'm at my most optimistic.
EMILY MORTIMER
I think half the time I just assume I don't really know what I'm doing - you have to do that...
EMILY MORTIMER
I think that you can get more passionate about somebody the longer you're with them and the more...
EMILY MORTIMER
To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaning...
EMILY MORTIMER
51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad...
EMILY MORTIMER
I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live ...
EMILY MORTIMER
I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a c...
EMILY MORTIMER
Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that...
EMILY MORTIMER
I must have been a really pretentious little girl.
EMILY MORTIMER
Breakfast is my favorite meal. I cook a big one for everyone - bacon and eggs. I own a lot of eggcup...
EMILY MORTIMER
I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy...
EMILY MORTIMER
My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they b...
EMILY MORTIMER
This strategy has a lot of teeth.
JEFF MORTIMER
If you share too much, the world will copy you.
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