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By AnonymMitchell Zuckoff
Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-old poet!
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By AnonymMitchell Zuckoff
Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.
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By AnonymMitchell Zuckoff
Fear is something i don't you experience unless you have a choice. If you have a choice, you're liable to be afraid. But without a choice, what is there to be afraid of? You just go along and do what has to be done.
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By AnonymMitchell Zuckoff
For starters, let's dispense with the cheap jokes about cannibalism. That means cracks about giving an arm and a leg - sorry - for a good book on the subject, or similar tasteless - sorry, again - attempts to make the subject more palatable - last one.
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By AnonymMitchell Zuckoff
I know that plenty of folks have issues with Social Security, but I'd urge them to confront it on its own terms. Calling it a Ponzi scheme is misleading and does more to cloud the issue than it does to illuminate it. And yes, I do know that unless changes are made, the current system is unsustainable. But that doesn't mean it's fraud.
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By AnonymMitchell Zuckoff
I was researching a different World War II story when I came across an article in the 'Chicago Tribune' from June 1945 that knocked me for a loop. The article explained that a military plane had crashed in an impossibly remote valley of New Guinea that had been nicknamed Shangri-La.
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By AnonymMitchell Zuckoff
Nathaniel Philbrick's 'In the Heart of the Sea' has rightfully taken its place as a classic for its literary merits. It has a special place in the cannibalism canon as well.
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By AnonymMitchell Zuckoff
Sending a book out into the world is a lot like sending your child to the first day of kindergarten. You hope the other kids play nice and that she makes friends.
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By AnonymMitchell Zuckoff
When running a Ponzi scheme, how does one avoid enormous, unexpected withdrawals - runs on the bank, so to speak - that would pull back the curtain and reveal a little man blowing smoke? One way would be to attract a core of investors who could be counted on to never withdraw more than a small percentage of principal each year.
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By AnonymMitchell Zuckoff
None of. us wants to die. But it's a possibility, and if you don't accept that, it's going to be in the back of your head the whole time, and you're not going to be able to function. So you accept it, you realize that you're not going to be able to talk to your family possibly ever again.
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By AnonymMitchell Zuckoff
None of us wants to die. But it's a possibility, and if you don't accept that, it's just going to be in the back of your head the whole time, and you're not going to be able to function. So you accept it, you realize that you're not going to be able to talk to your family possibly ever again.
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