We've been pretty careful in managing our cash. Our balance sheet is absolutely pristine.


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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
Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enig...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
EDWARD DOWDEN
The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.
EDWARD SIMMONS
The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
EDWARD GIBBON