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"Our ages ranged from 22, down to 18, and we had a 6 month contract to go to Bogata, Columbia. And of course, it was during the depression, we were still with our parents, and things were still pretty tough on them back in the United States."

"I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression."

"You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it."

"There isn't any doubt I'm stuck in stress and depression."

"We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression."

"The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower."

"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."

"Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low."

"I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to."

"When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments."
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"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."

"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."

"Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men."

"Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions."

"Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different."
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