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Charles Schumer

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THOMAS E. PEREZ Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized.
SHERYL SANDBERG I do not believe he has an agenda to reverse our nation's historic commitment to civil rights, and I...
JEFF BINGAMAN He was resolute in his leadership, ... He always said civil rights is civil rights.
MARK LENO If there is justice with no mercy, Ira Flatow will have to come back countless times as a lab rat fo...
ANIMAL RIGHTS And it couples that with commitment to the city and to civil rights and couples that within a urban ...
FRANK WU Immigrants' rights are workers' rights.
DENNIS GANNON You have to remember, rights don't come in groups we shouldn't have 'gay rights'; rights come as ind...
RON PAUL The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included...
ADAM SELZER I will take a backseat to no one in a commitment to civil rights in America.
HOWARD DEAN No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil right...
RAND PAUL Civil rights and women's rights and gay rights all take time in this country.
ELIZABETH ESTY intent on reversing decades of policies on civil rights, voting rights, women's rights, privacy and ...
PATRICK LEAHY We make her paint her face and dance
If she won't be a slave, we say that she don't love us
JOHN LENNON I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
RAND PAUL He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality,...
JESSE JACKSON Civil rights in reverse is what I call it. What about our civil rights?
DANIEL ORTEGA We're here celebrating a new civil rights movement, and it's headed up by Latinos.
DOLORES HUERTA [(AP) CBC Wants Roberts Probed on Civil Rights: A Roberts who would limit the Supreme Court's reach ...
SAM BROWNBACK He put forth an anti-Rosa Parks judge. ... Just maybe, we need a White House conference on civil rig...
JESSE JACKSON When Roberts' record on civil rights is reviewed inside the Judiciary Committee, it's going to sound...
JENNY BACKUS John Roberts consistently has taken the most narrow, restrictive views of civil rights and women's r...
DEBRA NESS There are those who say to you -- we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years ...
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-Americ...
DAVID DUKE The civil rights movement, owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY During Black History Month, I'm reminded yet again of the ways that the struggle for civil right...
THOMAS E. PEREZ Roberts has demonstrated a commitment to reversing the historic civil rights gains of the past 40 ye...
BRUCE GORDON This quintessentially self made man, (Abraham Lincoln), fierce in his belief in honest work and the ...
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
DANNY GLOVER Immigration is the No. 2 issue after civil rights. Civil rights right now is what's keeping people f...
OSAMA SIBLANI Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for wome...
GLORIA STEINEM Man treats woman as his own property and not as being capable of feelings, like himself. The way man...
PERIYAR E.V. RAMASAMY The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR. building reconciliation between ethnic groups, issues of human rights, more tolerance and commitment...
MARY ROBINSON Human rights and civil rights are at the forefront of today's society, even as much as they were in ...
DAVID HARRIS Human rights and civil rights are at the forefront of today's society, even as much as they were in ...
DAVID HARRIS I want to make sure there are votes to deal with serious human rights questions, the rights of worke...
PAUL WELLSTONE Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something m...
MORGAN FREEMAN The Democrats have certainly never been satisfied with the status quo, with economic inequities and ...
BILL MAER It is not about civil rights or the rights of same-sex couples. Same-sex couples are free to live as...
TODD AKIN There might be a civil rights violation. But that's in the preliminary stage of research.
NICHOLAS CARBONE played a significant role in shaping and advancing the Republican agenda to roll back civil rights p...
HARRY REID A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klans...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of histo...
TOM HAYDEN I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964
RONALD REAGAN Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagi...
JAMES FARMER The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in th...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM This is probably the most profound civil rights movement of our generation, without q doubt.
JACKIE SPEIER If you are the prevailing party under any claim enforcing civil rights statutes, then you are entitl...
STEVEN MULROY Roberts flunks the civil-rights test.
HECTOR FLORES He heard from his base that this is a civil rights issue.
GEOFFREY KORS This administration has continued the robust and vigorous enforcement of civil rights laws, ... Thes...
ERIC HOLLAND They had a tremendous impact. Not just because they underscore that this is a civil rights question,...
EVAN WOLFSON This was a civil-rights case.
JACK SCHWEIGERT We'll celebrate the black cowboy's role in settling the West as well as the modern civil rights move...
KATI ANDERSON Protecting civil rights is our basic consideration.
KE LIANGDONG Having been arrested in the early 60s for civil rights and to be recognized by the same entity that ...
RAOUL CUNNINGHAM I agree that Dr. King contributed to civil rights. What I don't agree with is that the only way you ...
SCOTT CASE All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and...
ELIOT ENGEL When others have shied away, our awardees have shown great commitment in their advocacy for equal ri...
JOE SOLMONESE We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it ...
CLARENCE THOMAS It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil ...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the r...
SENATOR JOHN KERRY We want to focus on civil rights and education.
BOBBY POOLE I'm going to talk about civil rights for all people and how you really have to stand up for your rig...
GAYE ADEGBALOLA In reality, civil rights are more important than national rights. They're the content, the day-t...
AYMAN ODEH What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rig...
RAND PAUL Judge Roberts declined to disavow disparaging opinions expressed against civil rights laws, voting r...
MARK DAYTON Then we can say at least the civil rights community tried to alert you.
MARY FRANCES BERRY China has declared its commitment to human rights and has raised expectations for the country to mat...
LOUISE ARBOUR It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.
TARIQ ALI I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group right...
CLARENCE THOMAS It was your standard civil rights case.
BURT ODELSON As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a ...
JAMES T. WALSH This is not an economic strategy for Australia. This is just a major assault on workers' rights and ...
GREG COMBET We want to protect the rights of all workers and patrons. Economically speaking, studies have shown ...
KATHRYN MOLNAR In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
BERNARD M. BARUCH The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR. All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all ca...
THOMAS JEFFERSON When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each porti...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
AUNG SAN SUU KYI Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed—

I, too, am America...
LANGSTON HUGHES To work to change practices, to change some of the policies, so that people's basic human rights and...
JENNIFER ALLEN I always thought he ate and breathed civil rights.
DONALD ROZIER It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.
BOBBY SCOTT Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.
SONIA JOHNSON I have made both a philosophical and financial commitment to the goal of securing the rights of the ...
BILL PYLE America can't afford a Supreme Court justice -- let alone a chief justice -- with Roberts' record of...
ELI PARISER I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody ...
ALAN AUTRY Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, ...
RUSSELL SIMMONS If I had to pick three overall areas: civil rights, access to justice and, I think, privacy.
ELLIOT MINCBERG the legacy of Rosa Parks is more than just a success for the civil rights movement or for African-Am...
JOHN CONYERS Brown truly becomes law, really becomes something everyone's on board with after the Civil Rights Ac...
JACK BALKIN The civil rights of European Americans are being violated by affirmative action, forced integration ...
DAVID DUKE we in the civil rights community need to hold the senators accountable, all the senators, for their ...
STEPHANIE JONES He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly littl...
JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS It's a cliche to say she was the mother of the civil rights movement, but she was.
JULIAN BOND The main concern we have in the civil rights community isn't necessarily that that DOJ brought this ...
JON GREENBAUM has failed his test of leadership and missed an historic opportunity to stand up for the basic civil...
MARK LENO

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CHARLES SCHUMER Anytime Saudis are returned under a veil of secrecy, I'm suspicious,
CHARLES SCHUMER Nothing about Kathleen Willey is in the two articles of impeachment and if we were to go beyond the ...
CHARLES SCHUMER The genie is out of the bottle, ... Once you start the trial process, you don't know where it ends. ...
CHARLES SCHUMER From conflicts of interest to inexplicable delays the actions so far of the attorney general and the...
CHARLES SCHUMER These plans are so complicated and the options so varied that Albert Einstein couldn't understand th...
CHARLES SCHUMER In a sense, we have seen maybe 10 percent of you -- just the visible tip of the iceberg, not the 90 ...
CHARLES SCHUMER If he [John Roberts] is a Miguel Estrada and just refuses abjectly to answer everything, it would ma...
CHARLES SCHUMER Anyone who thinks that this nomination is a foregone conclusion is sadly mistaken.
CHARLES SCHUMER This administration has been far too close for far too long to the Saudi ruling family, a family tha...
CHARLES SCHUMER some sort of a witch hunt.
CHARLES SCHUMER The vote is a shot across the bow in terms of the Justice Department and how it conducts itself, in ...
CHARLES SCHUMER [But Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), who had been among the IRS' critics for not raising the rate, sa...
CHARLES SCHUMER These subpoenas are one indication that what we had hoped would happen with regard to the CIA leak p...
CHARLES SCHUMER I'm prepared to do everything I can to stop the nomination of Justice Pickering. We can do a lot bet...
CHARLES SCHUMER Nothing could be further from the truth, ... This is about his record.
CHARLES SCHUMER I've said to the people at the White House that you say you need all the resources to fight the war ...
CHARLES SCHUMER If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know...
CHARLES SCHUMER The federal government will make every family who lost someone or had someone injured whole.
CHARLES SCHUMER of course, want to do business with gun manufacturers who are doing more to keep guns out of the han...
CHARLES SCHUMER There is a clear conflict of interest for the Justice Department,
CHARLES SCHUMER We stand on the precipice of a constitutional crisis, ... Bill Pryor is the last of the four most co...
CHARLES SCHUMER The U.S. Navy cannot, and should not, force the people of Puerto Rico to live in fear for their live...
CHARLES SCHUMER But as more and more SARS cases are discovered here at home, it's time for us in New York to get the...
CHARLES SCHUMER it would cost power plants about $3 billion to clean up. It's estimated that the costs of the pollut...
CHARLES SCHUMER It should come as no surprise that career prosecutors are taking issue with the ad hoc way this inve...
CHARLES SCHUMER My first reaction is a simple one: It could have been a lot worst. ... The president has not sent us...
CHARLES SCHUMER a gift to the oil companies.
CHARLES SCHUMER With all the rhetoric on America's dependence on foreign oil, we ought to be making a commitment to ...
CHARLES SCHUMER I spoke last night to the family and they are beginning to get a little more optimistic, thank God. ...
CHARLES SCHUMER It's inevitable that this is just the beginning, it's not the end, of this gasoline crisis! ... twid...
CHARLES SCHUMER Even if he is more likely to be a Rehnquist than a Thomas, the downside of him being a Thomas outwei...
CHARLES SCHUMER This process is getting a little more absurd the further we move,
CHARLES SCHUMER This questionnaire should have been completed with care and candor, but it seems to be a bit rushed ...
CHARLES SCHUMER The problem is not the expense of the drug but rather the shortage of supply, which would immediatel...
CHARLES SCHUMER This is the time for a consensus nominee,
CHARLES SCHUMER There is zero consultation, ... That is not what the founders intended.
CHARLES SCHUMER This isn't just rolling the dice - it's betting the whole house.
CHARLES SCHUMER If you refuse to talk about already decided cases, the burden, sir, is on you.
CHARLES SCHUMER It was sweaty, it was tense, but it had momentum.
CHARLES SCHUMER Mr. President, you want to speed the process up and deal with vacancies? Work with us. Nominate judg...
CHARLES SCHUMER When the Klan has been forced to unmask, they have been broken.
CHARLES SCHUMER The leaking of the name of a CIA [operative] is a dastardly act. It not only endangers the name of a...
CHARLES SCHUMER These subpoenas are one indication that what we had hoped would happen with regard to the CIA leak p...
CHARLES SCHUMER His [President George W. Bush} two greatest priorities are permanent tax cuts and Social Security. A...
CHARLES SCHUMER Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to mak...
CHARLES SCHUMER When you put together a prescription drug bill that puts the pharmaceutical and insurance industry f...
CHARLES SCHUMER A teen-ager can only do so much damage with his fists.
CHARLES SCHUMER If the gun lobby is really serious about enforcing tough gun laws, then the NRA should endorse this ...
CHARLES SCHUMER We need that bill passed, ... New York City is doing a great job on homeland security, but their res...
CHARLES SCHUMER While the Port of Hong Kong is screening everything, we are screening next to nothing.
CHARLES SCHUMER Sen. Graham and I do not think it would be appropriate to vote on this bill while the president is t...
CHARLES SCHUMER is good evidence that Mr. Fitzgerald is, indeed, following this investigation to its logical conclus...
CHARLES SCHUMER What does that say about someone's racial sensitivity, especially in the 5th Circuit of Mississippi?...
CHARLES SCHUMER The echoes of then-Judge Thomas's empty reassurances that he was a mainstream jurist are ringing in ...
CHARLES SCHUMER not a panacea, but it's a giant step forward.
CHARLES SCHUMER Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tort...
CHARLES SCHUMER Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
CHARLES SCHUMER The problem once again is fairness and reciprocity.
CHARLES SCHUMER I am not saying I will vote against John Ashcroft because he is pro-life, ... But let me say if some...
CHARLES SCHUMER The Supreme Court's verdicts show that, contrary to what the administration believes, we can have bo...
CHARLES SCHUMER America has stuck behind New York, and we are extremely appreciative and grateful.
CHARLES SCHUMER You can't have a campaign for a nominee based on whispers and winks.
CHARLES SCHUMER Without this package, we could have had real doubts whether downtown would ever achieve the glory th...
CHARLES SCHUMER [It is not clear if the latest meeting would similarly lead them to hold off pressing for a vote.] W...
CHARLES SCHUMER There are too many questions still to be answered, too many doubts still to be alleviated to say tha...
CHARLES SCHUMER one of the finer debates that I have heard in 18 years in the House.
CHARLES SCHUMER I, for one, have woken up in the middle of the night thinking about it, being unsure how to vote.
CHARLES E. SCHUMER The president called for a bipartisan commission on Social Security in his State of the Union addres...
CHARLES E. SCHUMER Let what we are doing be a beacon to the people of New Orleans. They should always know there is alw...
CHARLES E. SCHUMER Hopefully, this will be the beginning, not the end, of changes in FEMA.
CHARLES E. SCHUMER In 10 days, they go 3 percent.
CHARLES E. SCHUMER It was a strong and nice statement, but didn't answer the fundamental question what kind of justice ...
CHARLES E. SCHUMER The report is a top-to-bottom indictment of the federal government's lack of resources, focus, and e...
CHARLES E. SCHUMER This isn't just rolling the dice. It's betting the whole house.
CHARLES E. SCHUMER The northern border gets scant attention compared to the border with Mexico, but [it] presents a sig...
CHARLES E. SCHUMER We need to catch our breath in every way. I don't think the one week changes the dynamic at all.
CHARLES E. SCHUMER We need to be careful here. This is a nominee who could shift the balance of the court, and thus the...
CHARLES E. SCHUMER He was afraid of losing. I told him, 'Go back there.' This was three years before he ran. He said, '...
CHARLES E. SCHUMER It is clear that we're not doing close to enough and must do more.
CHARLES E. SCHUMER The repeated denials for a requested transfer raise serious questions about the appearance of whistl...
CHARLES E. SCHUMER I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapo...
CHUCK SCHUMER In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mista...
CHUCK SCHUMER There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up...
CHUCK SCHUMER Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tort...
CHUCK SCHUMER Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, pork...
CHUCK SCHUMER Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class familie...
CHUCK SCHUMER We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have be...
CHUCK SCHUMER Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.
CHUCK SCHUMER There are some tax expenditures that are there for very obvious and very important and very good pol...
CHUCK SCHUMER When Republicans say, 'The first thing you do when you do deficit reduction is reduce rates,'...
CHUCK SCHUMER The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Commi...
CHUCK SCHUMER Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that ...
CHUCK SCHUMER The way to lessen the grip of the Tea Party on the electoral process would be to do what a handful h...
CHUCK SCHUMER The bottom line is there are lots of problems that were not created by government. The biggest one i...
CHUCK SCHUMER If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?
CHUCK SCHUMER I just say what I think is the funniest thing I could say. I'm not trying to make headlines. I&#...
AMY SCHUMER The president ought to do his own internal investigation of the vice president's office, to see what...
CHUCK SCHUMER If you refuse to talk about already decided cases, the burden sir, is on you,
CHUCK SCHUMER The Tea Party people are ideologues. They are right, and no one can change their minds. There is no ...
CHUCK SCHUMER The last couple of roles I missed out on went to Jennifer Hudson, Jessica Biel and Olivia Wilde.
AMY SCHUMER Mitt Romney would move the Court even further right, putting landmark decisions like Roe v. Wade at ...
CHUCK SCHUMER It is sad that the president felt he had to pick a nominee likely to divide Americans instead of cho...
CHUCK SCHUMER She disavowed that completely,
CHUCK SCHUMER The vast majority of the people employed by Wall Street are the secretary who goes in to work on the...
CHUCK SCHUMER The Chinese manipulate their currency and the administration should not have ducked the issue,
CHUCK SCHUMER Its become perfectly clear that the big oil companies are cashing in while average American families...
CHUCK SCHUMER A far more muscular use of the SPR is what is needed at a time when oil is over $70 a barrel.
CHUCK SCHUMER The Internet in the 21st Century is as important to our future as highways were in the 20th Century....
CHUCK SCHUMER I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason ...
CHUCK SCHUMER If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know...
CHUCK SCHUMER if need be, take the vice president to the wood shed.
CHUCK SCHUMER The Bush administration, with its doctrinal commitment to unfettered deregulation, has insisted that...
CHUCK SCHUMER How was it we were so far behind the curve that it was almost laughable. It just makes my jaw drop t...
CHUCK SCHUMER Skyrocketing gas prices have tipped consumers upside down this summer and to protect our economy, th...
CHUCK SCHUMER Okay, known to vote for Republicans, ... compounding the crime, so to speak, because they were polit...
CHUCK SCHUMER To those who say ideology doesn't matter, they should take their argument to President Bush.
CHUCK SCHUMER You may very well possess the most powerful intellect of any person to come before the Senate for th...
CHUCK SCHUMER I for one have woken up in the middle of the night thinking about it, wondering how I should vote, ....
CHUCK SCHUMER If he is a Rehnquist, that would not be a cause for exultation in my book, but it would not be a cau...
CHUCK SCHUMER Truth be told, though our economy operates in the Information Age, our power grid functions more lik...
CHUCK SCHUMER office buildings are our factories. They are at the center of economic growth and job creation.
CHUCK SCHUMER Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
CHUCK SCHUMER Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no e...
CHUCK SCHUMER What the public hates the most is when they think the politicians aren't listening to them. They...
CHUCK SCHUMER My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may exp...
CHUCK SCHUMER As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, I...
CHUCK SCHUMER Any party that writes off 25, 30, 35 percent of the American people is not going to be a winner.
CHUCK SCHUMER The Tea Party is a rear guard, not a vanguard.
CHUCK SCHUMER But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don't be...
CHUCK SCHUMER They have convinced us that the likelihood of real progress ... is very real.
CHUCK SCHUMER I'm totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail.
CHUCK SCHUMER On foreign policy, President Obama has kept our nation safe from terrorism and restored our standing...
CHUCK SCHUMER Working with the media remains an effective and essential way to raise issues, educate the public, a...
CHUCK SCHUMER To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task.
CHUCK SCHUMER There will certainly be more concern and scrutiny for Sandra Day O'Connor's seat,
CHUCK SCHUMER Big Oil behemoths are making out like bandits, while the average American family is getting killed b...
CHUCK SCHUMER This portends really well for the future, ... Unless George Bush reverses his polices and reaches to...
CHUCK SCHUMER You give the impression of being a meticulous legal navigator, but, in the end, you always seem to c...
CHUCK SCHUMER We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor p...
CHUCK SCHUMER I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. ...
CHUCK SCHUMER Well, the tough thing for them is that the Republican primary is pretty far over to the right, just ...
CHUCK SCHUMER Love yourself! You don’t need a man or a boy or a self-proclaimed love expert to tell you what you...
AMY SCHUMER Being an introvert doesn’t mean you’re shy. It means you enjoy being alone. Not just enjoy it—...
AMY SCHUMER If you’re a true introvert, other people are basically energy vampires. You don’t hate them; you...
AMY SCHUMER Smells, I think, may be the last thing on earth to die.
FERN SCHUMER CHAPMAN Most German perpetrators were never punished or rewarded for their behavior, but they had learned so...
FERN SCHUMER CHAPMAN Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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CHARLES DANCE No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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CHARLES BABBAGE At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes...
CHARLES BABBAGE A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine i...
CHARLES BABBAGE If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
CHARLES DICKENS Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is...
CHARLES SPURGEON There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, yo...
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
CHARLES LINDBERGH I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
CHARLES V One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to h...
CHARLES STANLEY