Don Williams Quotes
When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.
Quotes to Explore
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War is never a lasting solution for any problem.
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Sometimes compromise is painful.
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There are no second acts in American lives.
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Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve my parenting - let's see how the chimps do it!'
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Our technology promises the magic of constant connectedness. Yet we feel loss in being atomized on separate screens, trapped in filter bubbles of belief, bobbing in a sharing economy in which the technologists seem to own all the shares.
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That they were going to rebel? Yeah. They were just such rebels anyway, and their characters were rebels, so they just lived it to the hilt.
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Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.
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Drinking when not thirsty and making love all the time, madam, is all that distinguishes us from other animals.
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No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
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Political as well as religious cults can be distinguished from legitimate organizations by their use of doublethink. Though political cults espouse extremist ideologies, not extremist theologies, operationally they are virtually identical to religious cults, and they also go to great lengths to control the vocabularies of their members.
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When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.
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I've learnt so much over time and with the experience that I've gained. You can't please everyone.
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I'm not recognised much at all.
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... if you know a person really well, the truth is you can't guess how they'll act in an altogether new sort of crisis. ... intimacy creates a special environment for two people, and the deeper the intimacy, the more they both live within it, the closer its boundaries usually are, so that all that lies beyond them becomes with time not less but more and more of a mystery.
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Once a script is released that doesn't mean it's the final product. It's not set in stone.
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We want to win the trophy, at all cost, of course. But anything can happen in semifinal or a final. You can be at your best and still lose. Or you can win with a bit of luck. The difference between the teams is so small.
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When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.
