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The Great Depression

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These unhappy times call for the building of plans… that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Happy days are here again,
The skies above are clear again:
Let us sing a song of cheer again,
Happy days are here again!

Jack Yellen

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Go out and fight so life shouldn’t be printed on dollar bills.

Clifford Odets

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They threw me off the hay truck about noon.

James M. Cain

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