"Perhaps more than anything else, failure to recognize the precariousness and fickleness of confidence - especially in cases in which large short-term debts need to be rolled over continuously - is the key factor that gives rise to the this-time-is-different syndrome. Highly indebted governments, banks, or corporations can seem to be merrily rolling along for an extended period, when bang! - confidence collapses, lenders disappear, and a crisis hits."

-- Carmen Reinhart

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“To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.”
“Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.”

Source : "Insight and Responsibility".
“I have no wisdom to share on dating.”

Source : "Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock comedian Rachel Dratch on her new book and her new baby". Interview with Jesse Thorn, tv.avclub.com. May 11, 2012.
“I always liked records that didn't explain themselves too well - ones that you had to listen a few times.”
“People are not free to violate law or convention to satisfy their wants and cravings.”
“The toughest workout can never match the pain of being out of work.”
“I see stereotypes as fundamental and inescapable and not as something that is... The kind of common view is "Oh, we shouldn't think in stereotypes," and I think the reality is we can't help but think in stereotypes.”
“It was that depressing time in the early morning where the only people about were milkmen, police officers- and time travellers.”

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