Quotes with depression-era

Quotes 41 till 60 of 105.

  • Ben Bernanke Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot In a different era, I would have called myself a natural philosopher. All my life, I have enjoyed the reputation of being someone who disrupted prevailing ideas. Now that I'm in my 80th year, I can play on my age and provoke people even more.
    New Scientist interview
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Bill Pascrell In an era when information can be sent instantaneously anywhere, it is utterly nonsensical that our Nation's police, the fire, and EMS personnel cannot consistently communicate with each other.
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Benedict Wong In terms of representation, television is reflecting an era that has passed. It's the wrong time; it's the wrong period. In all sorts of television, it doesn't feel like the 21st century.
    Benedict Wong
    English actor (1971 - )
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  • Burt Rutan In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If the history of private aviation is any guide, private development efforts will be safer, too.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Samuel Huntington In the emerging era, clashes of civilization are the greatest threat to world peace, and an international order based on civilizations is the surest safeguard against world war.
    The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) p.321
    Samuel Huntington
    American political scientist (1927 - 2008)
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  • B. Carroll Reece In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
    B. Carroll Reece
    American politician (1889 - 1961)
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  • Bell Hooks Indeed much of the literature written about black folks in the post-civil rights era emphasized the need for jobs. Material advancement was deemed the pressing agenda. Mental health concerns were not a high priority. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Bailey Chase It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.
    Bailey Chase
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Harry S. Truman It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Bob Geldof It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke Let me end my talk by abusing slightly my status as an official representative of the Federal Reserve System. I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression. You're right, we did it. We're very sorry. But thanks to you, we won't do it again.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Richard Nixon Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Brent Scowcroft Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Bruno Mars My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Bea Arthur My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression.
    Bea Arthur
    American actress and comedian (1922 - 2009)
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  • Bode Miller My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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