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Such gossip pales beside this "maundering," this reverie for which I am intensely thankful; for nothing so solaces me, calms me in the perplexity of life, and miraculously raises its burdens, as this sublime power, this divine talent for writing endlessly about hardly anything at all, & one should no more interrupt it, while it lasts than one should break the crockery in one's home and leave the shards lying on the kitchen floor for no reason.
1933: FDR's "The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is Eleanor" Speech Calms Nation
When his aides panic over some nugget of bad news, he calms them down by quoting his sages: Lao Tzu, Euripedes, Toynbee, Covey.
Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine later reported on the summit under the headline "In Rome Kohl Calms Anti-German Waves," but it also quoted at length from an article in Rome's La Repubblica suggesting that sharp differences between Germany and Italy about the single European currency--the euro--might become "permanent."