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“In the large sense the primary cause of the Great Depression was the war of 1914-1918. Without the war there would have been no depression of such dimensions. There might have been a normal cyclical recession; but, with the usual timing, even that readjustment probably would not have taken place at that particular period, nor would it have been a "Great Depression.”

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Book:The great depression, 1929-1941

Source: The great depression, 1929-1941

“Now, therefore, I, Gerald R. Ford, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974.”

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Author:Gerald R. Ford

“That the legislative and executive powers of the State should be separate and distinct from the judiciary; and that the members of the two first may be restrained from oppression, by feeling and participating the burdens of the people, they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken, and the vacancies be supplied by frequent, certain, and regular elections, in which all, or any part of the former members, to be again eligible, or ineligible, as the laws shall direct.”

“There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.”

Two Age Women Taken Periods Ninety Sixteen

Book:A Sleeping Life: (A Wexford Case)

Source: A Sleeping Life: (A Wexford Case)

“It never feels good if you don't reach all of your goals, neither in sport, nor in business nor in your personal life. But the key thing is to never give up, we have taken our learnings from 2014 and developed an exciting and promising strategy for the period up until 2020.”

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Author:Herbert Hainer

“The joy of a period film is that you're taken to another world. The costumes determine the way you move, and then consequently the way you breathe. And then, the way you breathe effects the way you think.”

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Author:Rhys Ifans

“I think it's hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period.”

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Author:Amber Tamblyn

“Therefore, a grotesque account of a period some thousands of years ago is taken seriously though it be built by piling special assumptions on special assumptions, ad hoc hypothesis [invented for a purpose] on ad hoc hypothesis, and tearing apart the fabric of science whenever it appears convenient. The result is a fantasia which is neither history nor science.”

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Author:James Bryant Conant

“I've always played music and I've always been in bands and there have been periods in my life where the music has taken a much more front row seat than any acting. For a big period of time the acting work was really a way of raising money to fund my music. And then that all sort of changed around and that's fine.”

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Author:Jim Sturgess

“A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance”

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Book:Rhetoric

Source: Rhetoric

“I think it's criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they're paid.”

People Thinking Should Littles Long Taken Military Periods Paid Criminals Long Periods Of Time

Author:Ben Stein