James Tobin: The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the...

Quote	The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. Copy
Author	James Tobin
Category	Depression
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Quote: I came close to depression, but when I started to feel I could really lose myself, I somehow escaped it.
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Author:
Marion Cotillard
Category:
Depression

I came close to...

Quote: I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Author:
Karen Elson
Category:
Depression

I am obsessed with...

Quote: The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
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Author:
Barry Eichengreen
Category:
Depression

The 24% unemployment reached...

Quote: Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity.
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Author:
Eugene Fama
Category:
Depression

Debates go on to...

Quote: One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.
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Author:
Polly Toynbee
Category:
Depression

One in six people...

Quote: I personally dealt with a lot of depression and anxiety in my life.
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Author:
Miles Heizer
Category:
Depression

I personally dealt with...

Quote: What's often not acknowledged about depression is how much anger is in it.
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Author:
Margo Jefferson
Category:
Depression

What's often not acknowledged...

Quote: Joining another big time rock band was the last thing I was looking for, but as the tour went on, I really dug playing to a lot of people, the band sounded great, and just being out there again, got me over my depression and so I decided to hop on board.
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Author:
Matt Cameron
Category:
Depression

Joining another big time...

Quote: You want to keep the severity of our environmental problems in mind enough to keep yourself motivated but not enough to paralyze you into depression.
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Author:
Sara Gilbert
Category:
Depression

You want to keep...

Quote: Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine. It is, for example, a serious problem among children who are traumatised refugees.
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Author:
Robert Winston
Category:
Depression

Childhood depression tends to...

Quote: Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
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Author:
Irving Kirsch
Category:
Depression

Anything that instills a...

Quote: I have a tremendous battle with melancholy and depression.
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Author:
Sebastian Faulks
Category:
Depression

I have a tremendous...

Quote: Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.
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Author:
Gloria Steinem
Category:
Depression

Anger is energising. The...

Quote: The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.
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Author:
Anne Sullivan
Category:
Depression

The Great War proved...

Quote: I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.
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Author:
Alanis Morissette
Category:
Depression

I'm really clear about...

Quote: If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.
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Author:
Gayle Forman
Category:
Depression

If the spectrum linking...

Quote: My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.
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Author:
Patty Duke
Category:
Depression

My recovery from manic...

Quote: People look for patterns in everything. It's what keeps us sane, I suppose. I struggle to see any patterns in my life. I think I can understand depression a bit because of my sister. My own feelings of... I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.
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Author:
Michael Palin
Category:
Depression

People look for patterns...

Quote: The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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Author:
Carlos Santana
Category:
Depression

The more choices we...

Quote: I'm not always ', Tough Guy.' Depression runs in my bloodline.
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Author:
Dominick Cruz
Category:
Depression

I'm not always ',...

Quote: I've struggled with self-esteem and depression, like most singer-songwriters. I listen to my EPs on Bandcamp, and I can just hear the pain and the self-esteem struggle in my voice.
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Author:
Natalie Prass
Category:
Depression

I've struggled with self-esteem...

Quote: You could argue that Barack Obama faced in '08 a situation as bad as any president since the Great Depression. What Obama inherited from the Bush administration, we all remember, was just an absolute global catastrophe.
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Author:
Tony Kushner
Category:
Depression

You could argue that...

Quote: This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.
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Author:
Siobhan Fahey
Category:
Depression

This is what I...

Quote: The downturn following the collapse of Japan's so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as severe as the Great Depression.
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Author:
Ben Bernanke
Category:
Depression

The downturn following the...

Quote: My daddy thought - no, he expected - that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He was correct in his belief because he had lived in an America of continual social progress, depression followed by prosperity, segregation by integration, and so on.
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Author:
Wynton Marsalis
Category:
Depression

My daddy thought -...

Quote: If you look at the Greek economic record, it's been very similar to the U.S. experience in the first four years of the Great Depression. And after having a Depression-sized event, they've cut the unit-labor cost in Greece - they've closed something like half the gap with Germany.
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Author:
Austan Goolsbee
Category:
Depression

If you look at...

Quote: The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
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Author:
Leonard Cohen
Category:
Depression

The term clinical depression...

Quote: Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression.
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Author:
James Howard Kunstler
Category:
Depression

Americans are suffering so...

Quote: You know, you become crazy. I had done a story for '60 Minutes' on depression previously, but I had no idea that I was now experiencing it. Finally, I collapsed and just went to bed.
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Author:
Mike Wallace
Category:
Depression

You know, you become...

Quote: There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.
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Author:
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Category:
Depression

There is a very...

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