Times Like These

In times like these, it's helpful to remember that there have always been times like these.

-- Paul Harvey Aurandt (1918 - 2009), American radio broadcaster, famous for his idiosyncratic delivery of news stories with dramatic pauses, quirky intonations, and many of his standard lead-ins and sign offs, as quoted in Respectful Treatment : The Human Side of Medical Care (1977) by Martin R. Lipp