Depressing Quotes
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And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood and her drawers of water? Is it because science flatters no courtier, mingles in no political strife? ... Can we behold unmoved the science of England, the vital principle of her arts, struggling for existence, the meek and unarmed victim of political strife?
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There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.
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School is such an encouraging and safe environment. It's filled with idealism and just really working on your craft. When you enter the business world - where art meets commerce - it can become quite depressing.
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For me, I'm a fan of really dark, depressing stuff.
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If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
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Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had six major depressions in our history (1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893 and 1929); all six of them followed sustained periods of reducing the national debt. We have had almost chronic deficits since the 1930s, and there has been no depression since then - the longest crash-free period in our history.
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I think that chain stores in general are really super depressing and I think it really sucks the life out of a city such as San Francisco.
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The end of a wedding reception is always so depressing. And only the bride and groom are spared, jetting off into the sunset while the rest of us wake up the next morning to just another day.
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The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.
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God, I am afraid he won't give me his answer today. If only somebody would help me - it is all so terribly depressing.
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It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.
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I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and thats what I really loved about King Kong.
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I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
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I hope we don't have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion. The parity of women's health. It's very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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Enthusiasm reaches out with joy, for there is nothing depressing about it; it reaches out in faith, for there is no fear in it; it reaches out with acceptance, for there is no doubt in it; it reaches out as a child for there is no uncertainty about it.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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Why do people have to build such depressing places? I'm not saying that every nook and cranny of the world has to be beautiful, but does it have to be this ugly?
