Quotes with depression-era

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  • Henry David Thoreau How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Paul Tillich Depression is rage spread thin.
    Paul Tillich
    German-American theologian and philosopher (1886 - 1965)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In the United States in the 20th century, every major event that America was going through, there was a boxer who seemed to symbolically represent it, from slavery to the Vietnam War to the Depression - all the way along, you just seemed to have boxers that carried the narrative.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Ronald Reagan A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours.
    Speech, 01-09-1980
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Bill Gross Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for 'machines' are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Bryan Burrough All the way back in 1999, when I first stumbled upon the idea of a project tracking John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson and all the major Depression-era bank robbers, I thought the subject was too big to be a single book. Instead, with a friend's help, I pitched the idea as a miniseries to HBO. To my amazement, they bought it.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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  • Jeanette Winterson Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman As the era of the sword was ending, that of firearms began, in time to allow no lapse in man's belligerent capacity.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Arne Duncan At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.
    Arne Duncan
    American civil servant (1964 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Back in the NBA's pre-mask era, ballers with busted noses or orbital bones had two unappealing options: Sit out and heal, or strap on a Michael Myers-looking opaque face shield closely related to that worn by hockey goalies.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Bob Geldof But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Bjork Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Pythagoras Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
    Pythagoras
    Greek philosopher (580 - 504)
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  • Joni Mitchell Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl.
    Joni Mitchell
    Canadian singer-songwriter (1943 - )
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  • Carol Shields Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Susan Sontag Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Brad Pitt Depression is not interesting to watch.
    Brad Pitt
    American actor and filmmaker (1963 - )
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  • Rollo May Depression is the inability to construct a future.
    Rollo May
    American psychologist
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  • Siri Hustvedt Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done.
    Siri Hustvedt
    American novelist and essayist (1955 - )
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  • Jonathan Franzen Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.
    How to Be Alone: Essays (2007) 87
    Jonathan Franzen
    American novelist and essayist (1959 - )
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