“When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think you’re down and out. It may be a stroke of luck, and when you look back years later you may say to yourself that you wouldn’t for anything in the world exchange the new life disaster has forced upon you for the dull, humdrum existence you would have led if circumstances hadn’t intervened.” IfsThinkingWorldYearsLooksMayExistenceCareersCrimeCircumstancesDown AndLuckDisasterDullFollyMisfortunesStrokesNew LifeIncidentsShatteredHumdrum Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover. Because ever since the great tulipmania in 1637, speculation has always been covered by a new paradigm. There was never a paradigm so new and so wonderful as the one that covered John Law and the South Sea Bubble - until the day of disaster.” ShouldLawWonderfulSeaCircumstancesSouthDisasterCoveredBubblesSpeculationParadigm Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“I don't think it's aiming at gags, I think the humour is woven into it. It's part of how the characters operate and how they deal with disaster because they're worldly enough to have a bit of irony and wryness about their own circumstances. So, I think the humour comes out of that.” ThinkingEnoughCharacterBitsDealsHumourCircumstancesDisasterIronyWorldlyWovenGags Author:Colin Firth
“Strictly enforce the scale of "fixed responsibility." The first and foremost level of responsibility is with the individual himself; the second level is the family; then the church; next the community, finally the county, and, in a disaster or emergency, the state. Under no circumstances is the federal government to become involved in public welfare. The Founders felt it would corrupt the government and also the poor. No Constitutional authority exists for the federal government to participate in charity or welfare.” FirstsStatesGovernmentNextIndividualFeltCommunityChurchPoorLevelsResponsibilityInvolvedCircumstancesAuthorityCharityDisasterScalesWelfareFixedFoundersFederal GovernmentEmergenciesCountyPublic Welfare Book:The Making of America Source: The Making of America