"Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing."

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Source : "US unemployment: some lessons in sharing from the Great Depression" by Barry Eichengreen, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

Barry Eichengreen

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“I've done every kind of touring known to mankind. I've played the big and the small places.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Desire is the putting of my will into Godâ€™s concern. Itâ€™s not a passive, sitting back in your easy chair, folding your arms sort of thing, which says, 'Well, Iâ€™m willing, if God would only give me a good swift kick and send me.' Thatâ€™s willingness all right. But God doesnâ€™t want willingness, He wants will! He wants your will put behind those desires.”
“It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things...”

Source : Interview with Ryan Boudinot, www.pifmagazine.com. November, 1998.
“When it's in the slot, give it the lot!”
“Language is always evolving. It's difficult to read Shakespeare now because language has shifted. Similarly, kids these days can get to the point really quick in about 140 characters or less because of these new tools.”
“Sickness is real. However, I've seen too many people suffering with sicknesses not of their own choosing to say glibly that all sickness is caused by sin. On the other hand, to believe that sin does not exist and that all of our trials and tribulations have naturalistic explanations or are simply random events may cause us to miss the very solution we seek. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland observed that "too many people . . . want to sin and call it psychology."”
“I love my songs, let's not get crazy here.”
“Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of 3 historic montage styles, for three perceptual modes mimed by that work.”

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