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  • The most desirable mental state for a potential consumer†is a kind of free-floating anxietyand depression, combined with a nice collection of unrealistic goals and desires.

    - Alison Lurie
      Of advertising. In the NewYork Review of Books, 2  Jun.

  • Recession is when your neighbour loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. SeeTruman 868:38.

    - Ronald Wilson Reagan
      Election campaign speech, Jersey City,1 Sep.

  • It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. See Reagan 680:55.

    - Harry S Truman
      In the Observer,13 Apr.

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