Finding Solace in Favourite Quotes: Escaping Despair with Words of Wisdom

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I don't know if the New Deal was responsible for ending the depression or not, but what I do remember is that after Roosevelt took action, people had enough food to eat
- my father-in-law
 
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Let your father-in-law know that there were food surpluses during the Great Depression. In fact, there were food surpluses since World War I. Because of the war, farmers produced goods like you wouldn't believe. When the war ended, they continued to produce at the same level. As you could imagine, this drove many farmers out of business as prices went through the floor. During the Great Depression, awesome levels of production still existed, but high inflation meant that people couldn't afford it. It wasn't until the markets stabilized (which took longer because of interference from FDR's administration, the Congress, and the Fed) that people could afford to buy the food.

So, let him know that there was always food, the fact that people began to visit supermarkets during FDR's presidency was just a coincidence.
 
Brilliant! said:
So, let him know that there was always food, the fact that people began to visit supermarkets during FDR's presidency was just a coincidence.

Coincidence? Or did FDR's father tell him about the French Revolution, and the consequences of people not having their brioche?

Hey! Wait a minute... This is quotesville. Why are we arguing politics?

Jesus said:
for the poor always ye have with you, and whenever ye may will ye are able to do them good, but me ye have not always

which I always mangle into

Me said:
Do not ask how anyone can be so, for the stupid will always be with us.
 
Brilliant! said:
Let your father-in-law know that there were food surpluses during the Great Depression. In fact, there were food surpluses since World War I. Because of the war, farmers produced goods like you wouldn't believe. When the war ended, they continued to produce at the same level. As you could imagine, this drove many farmers out of business as prices went through the floor. During the Great Depression, awesome levels of production still existed, but high inflation meant that people couldn't afford it. It wasn't until the markets stabilized (which took longer because of interference from FDR's administration, the Congress, and the Fed) that people could afford to buy the food.
Please provide evidence and citations to support one's conjectures.

Many farmers were driven out of business by drought and poor farming practices. See references on the "Dust Bowl".
 
Astronuc said:
Please provide evidence and citations to support one's conjectures.

Many farmers were driven out of business by drought and poor farming practices. See references on the "Dust Bowl".

What's more, this is not a thread for debate.
 
I was only commenting on your quote like so many in this thread have done of others. My apologies for forgetting the standard emoticon :smile:
 
From Martin Heidegger,

"The possible ranks higher than the actual"

And from Friedrich Nietzsche, and Master/Slave Morality

"All rare things for the rare"
 
More favorites:

"If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability".

Murray Gell-Mann

"A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability".

Earl Blumenauer

Couldn't resist this one:

"The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again".

B. F. Skinner (of the box)
 
When people in other countries get mad, they have riots and protests. Here in the US, we send emails typed in capital letters. - John Stewart
 
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu

Something I wish our politicians would follow more...
 
90% of the referees are great. And the other 10% ... do all our games.
Geno Auriemma
Head Coach, Univ. of Connecticut womens' basketaball
 
Thanks for great ones..Here are a few

Nobody is perfect. I am a Nobody, so I am Perfect!

Philosophy begins with wonder - Socratese

Luxury is artifical poverty,Contentment is natural wealth - Socratese

A signboard infront of an office- "We are a non-proft organization. We did not mean to be, but we Are"

A priest sees a robber in the night at his home. He decides to shoot the robber saying-- "I do not intend to kill thee, but thou art standing where I am about to shoot" :-)
 
IamWhatIam said:
Nobody is perfect. I am a Nobody, so I am Perfect!

For at couple of moments at least, I seriously considered making that my new signature. :biggrin:
 
"But there is a wider set of issues: this financial crisis has gone to the heart of how you create a good economy and a good society.

"We believe in markets. We also know that our success as a market economy - and indeed the operation of the market itself - depends upon upholding values which the market alone cannot generate.

"Successful market economies need trust which can only be built through shared values.

"My values, the values of the country, celebrate hard work, effort, enterprise and responsible risk taking - qualities that markets need to ensure that the rewards that flow are seen to be fair." Gordon Brown urging global markets to abide by a system of "morals", including "responsible risk-taking" and a "work ethic".
 
Ivan Seeking said:
For at couple of moments at least, I seriously considered making that my new signature. :biggrin:


:shy: LOL, yeah that was cool

Here are few more

"Math and alcohol do not mix, so don't drink and derive"

"The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a bit"

‘The kind of humor I like is that which makes me smile for five seconds
and think for ten minutes.’


‘I just got the bill for my operation.Now I know why those guys wear masks.’
 
Lamypalace said:
Excellent ! as always! :smile:

(That's the style I 'd like to hear)

:-p I'm glad you liked'em

--Those people who tell me that I'm going to hell while they're going to heaven somehow make me glad that we're going in separate directions. :wink:
 
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
-John von Neumann

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith, it is something entirely di erent.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the internet, we know this is not true.
-Robert Silensky
 
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't. - George Bernard Shaw
 
It feels really great to work with an American president who wants to change the world
- French President Nicolas Sarkozy
 
~ Some financial institutions have been compared to casinos, but that does a disservice to casinos! When you go to cash your chips in at a casino, they have the money to back them up. When you go to cash in a credit default swap, the money isn't there.
- Fareed Zakaria
 
There is nothing like a ballistic missile to take your mind off of Wall Street bonuses.
- George Will
 
Neutron Transport Equation (Boltzmann) :biggrin:

[tex]\frac{1}{v}\frac{\partial\phi}{\partial{t}}\,+\,\Omega\cdot\nabla\phi(r,E,\Omega,t)\,+\,\Sigma_t(r,E)\phi(r,E,\Omega,t)\,=\,\frac{1}{4\pi}S_f(r,E,t)\,+\,\\<br /> \int_{\Omega'}\int_{E'}\Sigma_s(r,{E'\rightarrow{E}},\Omega'\rightarrow\Omega)\phi(r,E',\Omega',t)dE'd\Omega'[/tex]

The study of the neutron transport equation is a delicate blend of theoretical mathematics,
numerical methods and computational strategies describing the interaction of neutrons and nuclei.
American Nuclear Society Reactor Physics Division [RPD]
http://rpd.ans.org/
 
THINK

The above sign hung in the lab of Ernest Rutherford.Does it win the prize for the shortest quote?
 
Dadface said:
THINK

The above sign hung in the lab of Ernest Rutherford.Does it win the prize for the shortest quote?
More famously at IBM under founder Thomas J.Watson.
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/vintage/vintage_4506VV2024.html"
Ernest Ruthorford said:
Ernest Ruthorford said:
We haven't got the money, so we've got to think!
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/we-haven-t-got-the-money-so-we-ve-got-to-think/408460.html"

As for short quotes, there is a story told sometimes of Oscar Wilde, sometimes of Victor Hugo, that the author sent a telegram to his publisher asking about the sales of a new book. The telegram consisted of just an question mark. In response the publisher replied that sales were enthusiastic in a telegram that consisted of just an exclamation point.
 
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Guns don't kill people, peanut butter does
- position of Congress, according to Mark Shields
 
Epicurus quote
Greek philosopher, BC 341-270

If God is willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?”
 
Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman.
- unknown
 

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