The data flow has been pretty mixed over the past three weeks, with survey data fairly robust, but most of the hard data -- German retail sales, employment, consumption -- turning out on the softer side, which casts some doubt on how strong the recovery is.


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The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to...
DAVID HUME
[The agreement] opens a new future for all in Ireland, ... It is now up to political leaders on all ...
JOHN HUME
He seldom errs / Who thinks the worst he can of womankind.
JOHN HUME
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence
DAVID HUME
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty
DAVID HUME
All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be skeptical, o...
DAVID HUME
[A] planet, wholly inhabited by spiders, (which is very possible)
DAVID HUME
All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always re...
DAVID HUME
In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be ...
DAVID HUME
MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. So...
BRIT HUME
But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should ...
DAVID HUME
Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from...
DAVID HUME
firmly based on our party's fundamental values.
JOHN HUME
It is necessary as far as we are concerned that this matter is resolved as soon as possible,
JOHN HUME
Given that he (Major) has told me in writing that those who were killed on Bloody Sunday should be r...
JOHN HUME
an amount of (explosives) ... in a certain location, the current difficulties could be swiftly overc...
JOHN HUME
We did not seek ideological confrontation.
JOHN HUME
leaving the past behind us and building a new future together.
JOHN HUME
If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless
JOHN HUME
Let's work together and build together, and as we do that, the real solution will begin, ... The rea...
JOHN HUME
We've had boilers getting overworked, filters plugged on furnaces, and a gas regulator that went bad...
RON HUME
The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be ...
DAVID HUME
Everything in the world is purchased by labor
DAVID HUME
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them
DAVID HUME
Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if...
DAVID HUME
It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past...
DAVID HUME
I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of dif...
DAVID HUME