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In the developing world, people often use quite basic technology. Many of the most imaginative schemes are using what we'd count as old tech.


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CHARLES KINGSLEY Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- fr...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, - fr...
CHARLES KINGSLEY He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
CHARLES LAMB Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creat...
CHARLES LAMB I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and th...
CHARLES LAMB Every true Christian is a soldier - of Christ - a hero 'par excellence'! Braver than the bra...
CHARLES STUDD Because the fees associated with a reverse mortgage are high, such loans make sense only for borrowe...
CHARLES DUHIGG In surveys, many borrowers say reverse mortgages have improved their lives and provided money they n...
CHARLES DUHIGG Because reverse mortgages do not require borrowers to make immediate repayments, the interest charge...
CHARLES DUHIGG Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
CHARLES DICKENS Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends, An incarnation of fat dividends.
CHARLES SPRAGUE The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;
We find delight in the most loathsome things;<...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas."

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