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"In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage."
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"My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle."
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"There isn't any doubt I'm stuck in stress and depression."
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"The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower."
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"Lucas felt uncommonly depressed and careless. Drunkenness, in a man like August Hay, melts the restraints on cheerfulness. On the contrary with Lucas: he kept up courage consciously. Sap his mind, and the lid was lifted from a cesspool of muddy colors."
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"Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for."
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"He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian."
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"It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered."
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"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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"I knew I should be grateful to Mrs Guinea, only I couldn't feel a thing. If Mrs Guinea had given me a ticket to Europe, or a round-the-world cruise, it wouldn't have made one scrap of difference to me, because wherever I sat - on the deck of a ship or a street cafe in Paris or Bangkok - I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air."
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"Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future."
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"The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle."
Influence
"I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents."
Office
"We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn."
Money
"I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business."
Business
"It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone."
Rights
"Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets."
Competition
"In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage."
Depression
"I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms."
Management
"We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant."
Food
"Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them."
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