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...“History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes” is an aphorism most commonly attributed to yarn-spinner Mark Twain, and has proven to be a useful phrase in cyclical financial markets....
...“I believe that Dave would run into a burning house to save my children,” his longtime colleague and Late Show bandleader Paul Shaffer told the audience in Washington DC at the Mark Twain Prize ceremony...
...Mark Twain may have had it wrong when he said “if you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you”. Pog the Dog has bitten everyone....
...Letter in response to this article: Twain on voting / From Nicholas Coulson...
...Mark Twain remarked that giving up smoking is easy: “I’ve done it a thousand times.”...
...Mark Twain may or may not have described golf as “a good walk spoiled”....
...Mark Twain published Huckleberry Finn aged 49. Peter Mark Roget did not invent his thesaurus until he was 73....
...But to paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the death of emerging markets have been exaggerated. True, there are concerns about the near-term outlook, but it is important to remember a few key facts....
...According to Ernest Hemingway, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that.” What Twain gave American writing was voice....
...“Literary history would tell you to expect Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy and Mark Twain to be at the top of the list,” says Jockers....
...Clemens, better known as Mark Twain; the almost unbelievable example of Google+ attempting to evict Salman Rushdie for not calling himself by his first name, Ahmed (cited in the same FT article); dissidents...
...The past week has conjured up Mark Twain’s famous dictum: “History does not repeat itself but it rhymes.”...
...Mark Twain put his finger on the problem: “It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”...
...” – Mark Twain The Wall Street Journal has a further news on Thursday from the grisly world of life settlements....
...You forge from text to text, from Sophocles to Mark Twain to Faulkner to Molière and then back to Faulkner (Weinstein’s abiding mentor), feeling culture-dazed....
...Related links: Macabre Mark Twain mathematics – FT Alphaville Life settlements coverage – FT Alphaville SEC Probes Company Over Life-Span Data – WSJ Odds Skew Against Investors in Bets on Strangers’ Lives...
...“As [American author] Mark Twain’s character Pudd’nhead Wilson once opined,” Mr Bernanke said, “if you put all your eggs in one basket, you better watch that basket.”...
...Mark Twain: The Adventures of Samuel L Clemens, by Jerome Loving, University of California Press £24.95, 548 pages, FT Bookshop price: £19.96 The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on his Life and Works...
...As American author (and investor) Mark Twain famously said, history may not repeat itself but it rhymes....
...Mark Twain lived at the corner of Delaware Avenue and Virginia Street when he edited the Buffalo Morning Express in the late 1860s....
...Put all your eggs in the one basket, Mark Twain said, and watch that basket. The strategy has obvious risks. But that, says the second argument, is unimportant....
...“There are basically two types of people,” said Mark Twain. “People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.”...
...Notables such as arbiter of manners Emily Post had taken up residence, Mark Twain visited and read to village children, while Edith Wharton sketched a posh Tuxedo Park in The House of Mirth....
...The Marathon Club is principally concerned with the insidious effects of mark-to-market accounting on pension funds, although the issues we raise apply more generally....
...When Steve Jobs strode onto the stage in San Francisco today to unveil Apple’s latest iPods, the Apple boss poked fun at recent speculation about his health by borrowing a line from Mark Twain....
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