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It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.

~Ben Shapiro

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My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.

~Ben Stein

Topics: Constant Depression Economic Fear Generation Great Great Depression Insecurity Kind Knew Lived Parents People Products Sink Sister State Successful Successful People Well Were Would

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My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets.

~Bill O'Reilly

Topics: Adult Begging Bread Brooklyn Children Depression Father Great Great Depression His Lines Neighborhood New New York Parents Saw Standing Streets Them Were Who York 1930S

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Americans who have parents raised during the Great Depression or World War II understand how drastically things have changed on the home front. My father did not care a whit whether I liked him, and it would have been unthinkable for him to pick up my stuff. There were rules in the house, and they were enforced.

~Bill O'Reilly

Topics: American Been Care Changed Depression Did Drastically Enforced Father Front Great Great Depression Him Home House How Liked Parents Pick Raised Rules Stuff Things Understand Unthinkable Up War Were Whether Who World World War World War Ii Would

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I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.

~Bryce Courtenay

Topics: Almost Born Depression Desperately Earliest Earliest Memories End Great Great Depression Immediately Memories Orphanage People Placed Poor Tag Understand Very Were I Was Born

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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

~C. L. R. James

Topics: American American People Among Contemporary Depression Development Future Great Great Depression Large Most People Profound Sections Skepticism Society Striking

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Hank Paulson, the happy capitalist warrior who spent his life pursuing and defending free markets, is now the biggest interventionist Treasury secretary we've had since the Great Depression.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Biggest Capitalist Defending Depression Free Free Markets Great Great Depression Had Hank Happy His Life Markets Now Pursuing Secretary Since Spent Treasury Warrior Who

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When someone takes their existing business and tries to transform it into something else - they fail. In technology that is often the case. Look at Kodak: it was the dominant imaging company in the world. They did fabulously during the great depression, but then wiped out the shareholders because of technological change.

~Charlie Munger

Topics: Because Business Case Change Company Depression Did Dominant Else Existing Fail Great Great Depression Imaging Look Often Out Shareholders Someone Something Something Else Takes Technological Technology Then Transform Tries Wiped World

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Recovery measures work better when they raise confidence - as Franklin D. Roosevelt understood. His fireside chats, and his inaugural address proclaiming he would fight the Great Depression with the same resolve he would muster against a foreign foe, were aimed at reassuring Americans.

~Christina Romer

Topics: Address Against American Better Confidence Depression Fight Foe Foreign Franklin Great Great Depression He His Measures Muster Raise Reassuring Recovery Resolve Roosevelt Same Understood Were Work Would

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My mother lived through the Great Depression. Her family of 11 children pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and moved to wherever there was work at the time. And in rural Oklahoma, that wasn't easy to find.

~Chuck Norris

Topics: Bootstraps Children Depression Easy Family Find Great Great Depression Her Lived Mother Moved Oklahoma Pulled Rural Themselves Through Time Up Wherever Work

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