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"I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him."
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"There isn't any doubt I'm stuck in stress and depression."

"Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable."

"Once I had been introduced to depression, I realized if I wanted to help my friend and preserve our friendship, I needed to understand what the illness was all about."

"I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2."

"Because that's the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don't want to let it go. It becomes a comfort. I want to cloak myself under its heavy weight and breathe it into my lungs. I want to nurture it, grow it, cultivate it. It's mine. I want to check out with it, drift asleep wrapped in its arms and not wake up for a long, long time."

"But here I'd like to add to what the Tempter's Manual suggests. Depression, at its finest, is not a Future that they cannot hopefully construct, nor a shamed Past that hounds them, but an agonizing Present that they cannot escape. We want to disable their Present so that they cannot use it to look Heavenward."

"Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst."

"I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff."

"You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it."
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"Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers."

"Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves."

"We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation."

"No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him."

"Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress."
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