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What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.


Charles M. Blow

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CHARLES M. SCHULZ wonderful support and love.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ You're a good man, Charlie Brown.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy ... how can I ever forget them ...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing ...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB I was once asked if a big business man ever reached his objectives. I replied that if a man ever rea...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives ...
CHARLES M. ALLEN A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope
CHARLES M. SCHULZ The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ We will put no impediment in your way and we will be at dockside bidding you a farewell as you set o...
CHARLES M. LICHENSTEIN St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly wh...
CHARLES M. MADIGAN Wouldn't it be nice if our lives were like VCRS (video recorders), and we could "fast forward' throu...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ A concern that produces its own raw materials, and works them up through the various processes until...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB None of my kids can draw!
CHARLES M. SCHULZ Once when Monty was in kindergarten, I had read to him and was trying to get him to go to sleep. He ...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ I don't believe in school prayer. I think it's total nonsense...who is the teacher there that is goi...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ I used to have more tolerance for these views, but I am losing patience with what I see. The test of...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ There is a thought among some brands of theology that souls are waiting up in heaven to be born. Now...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ Oh yes, I'm at my happiest when I have a good idea and I'm drawing it well, and it comes out well an...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ Well, I know about loneliness. I won't talk about it, but I was very lonely after the war. I know wh...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of re...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ I don't think God wants to be worshiped. I think the only pure worship of God is by loving one anoth...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties an...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ