I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.


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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of w...
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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
CHARLES DICKENS
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will al...
CHARLES DARWIN
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new ...
CHARLES DARWIN
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false v...
CHARLES DARWIN
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
CHARLES DARWIN
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explan...
CHARLES DARWIN
Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
CHARLES DARWIN
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
CHARLES DARWIN
Economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago persuasively argue ...
CHARLES DUHIGG
Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.
CHARLES RICHARDS
There is a calculus, it turns out, for mastering our subconscious urges. For companies like Target, ...
CHARLES DUHIGG
You've got to take the road you need to take, and only you can make that calculation. Not your d...
CHARLES SCHWAB
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
Unsurprisingly, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) - once a luxury for room-sized computer instal...
CHARLES PLATT
I was an enormous fan of Dan Slott's run, and John Byrne's run was a big deal for me. I foun...
CHARLES SOULE
These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for thr...
CHARLES STURT
Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tear...
CHARLES DICKENS
You have been the last dream of my soul.
CHARLES DICKENS
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
CHARLES DICKENS
As a young analyst just out of Stanford business school in the 1960s, I got to really understand wha...
CHARLES SCHWAB
I'd rather go by bus.
PRINCE CHARLES
A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hit...
CHARLES YOST
Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happ...
CHARLES DICKENS
I have made so many mistakes, and such really stupid ones, I would start blubbing away if I could re...
CHARLES SAATCHI
This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.
CHARLES II
Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perf...
CHARLES CONNOLLY
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
CHARLES STEINMETZ
Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
CHARLES LUCKMAN
Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to ...
CHARLES PLATT
I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby.
CHARLES EVERS
The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to cont...
CHARLES DARWIN
I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much belove...
CHARLES DARWIN
Without speculation there is no good and original observation.
CHARLES DARWIN
The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is impor...
CHARLES DARWIN
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most resp...
CHARLES DARWIN
It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong'...
CHARLES DARWIN
...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
CHARLES DARWIN
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find o...
CHARLES LAMB
The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.
CHARLES CHURCHILL
Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.
CHARLES ELIOT
You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
CHARLES BUXTON