I stand to lose everything I have worked a lifetime for.


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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
CHARLES DICKENS
How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a ...
CHARLES SPURGEON
Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure...
CHARLES SPURGEON
'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came ...
CHARLES SPURGEON
None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
CHARLES SPURGEON
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES SPURGEON
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you...
CHARLES SPURGEON
Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
CHARLES SPURGEON
Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explai...
CHARLES SAATCHI
Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entir...
CHARLES DICKENS
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
CHARLES EAMES
We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.
CHARLES EAMES
It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
CHARLES EAMES
Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to o...
CHARLES EAMES
To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matt...
CHARLES EAMES
It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
CHARLES EAMES
It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do...
CHARLES EAMES
The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten y...
CHARLES EAMES
Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
CHARLES EAMES
Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
CHARLES EAMES
Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that wa...
CHARLES EAMES
Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what tru...
CHARLES KINGSLEY
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
CHARLES SIMIC
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
CHARLES SPURGEON
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that&...
CHARLES MINGUS
The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have bee...
CHARLES BABBAGE
Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, re...
CHARLES BABBAGE
The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producin...
CHARLES BABBAGE
Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
CHARLES BABBAGE
The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or...
CHARLES BABBAGE
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscan...
CHARLES BABBAGE
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to ta...
CHARLES BABBAGE
Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
CHARLES BABBAGE
That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of...
CHARLES BABBAGE
The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it ne...
CHARLES BABBAGE
The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual forc...
CHARLES BABBAGE
There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with whic...
CHARLES BABBAGE
In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
CHARLES BABBAGE