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Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.


William Vickrey

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ROB PORTMAN Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.
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JIM COOPER It is a little thinner than $1.5 but the bottom line is that we do have a balanced budget.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. Julius Caesar
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is too young to know what conscience is.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being ve...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE