"Life is not the object of science: we see a little, very little; and what is beyond we can only conjecture. If we enquire of those who have gone before us, we receive small satisfaction; some have travelled life without observation, and some willingly mislead us. The only thought, therefore, on which we can repose with comfort, is that which presents to us the care of Providence, whose eye takes in the whole of things, and under whose direction all involuntary errours will terminate in happiness."
Samuel Johnson: Adventurer #107 (November 13, 1753)
"Faults and defects every work of man must have."
Johnson: Milton (Lives of the Poets)
"Every error in human conduct must arise from ignorance in ourselves, either perpetual or temporary; and happen either because we do not know what is best and fittest, or because our knowledge is at the time of action not present to the mind."
Samuel Johnson: Rambler #24 (June 9, 1750)
"Be not too hasty ... to trust, or to admire, the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men."
Johnson: Rasselas [Imlac]
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped."
- African proverb
Recession:
Period of general economic decline, defined usually as a contraction
in the GDP for six months(two consecutive quarters) or longer.
Marked by high unemployment, stagnant wages, and fall in retail sales,
a recession generally does not last longer than one year and is much
milder than a depression.
Although recessions are considered a normal part of a capitalist economy,
there is no unanimity of economists on its causes.
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