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We have done everything but tell you what our target is ... if you want to look at our past behavior, it's kind of magical. In the last decade (inflation excluding food and energy) has been between 1% to 2%.


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EDWARD RICKENBACKER Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders...
EDWARD HOAGLAND You know...that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a ...
EDWARD STEICHEN I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
EDWARD DAHLBERG We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
EDWARD GIBBON Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manife...
EDWARD HOAGLAND There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of ...
EDWARD HOAGLAND Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of ...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
EDWARD EVERETT Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borr...
EDWARD BLISHEN I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
EDWARD GIBBON What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore.
EDWARD DAHLBERG Every decision you make is a mistake.
EDWARD DAHLBERG The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the sub...
EDWARD GIBBON Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is...
EDWARD DAHLBERG It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, a...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspire...
EDWARD DAHLBERG