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One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.


Charles Ives

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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 My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on...
CHARLES KURALT 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