Dallas Willard Quotes
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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Even if you throw your hair up in a quick topknot or ponytail, you can add instant polish by wearing a headband or bejeweled barrette.
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
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The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.
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Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?
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If you're going to write thrillers, you have to make a decision if you are going to be realistic or go off and over.
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You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.
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The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't.
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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
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I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society.
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Yes. I'm a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth between industry and medical roles. I know them; they are not bad people. But it is possible for good people in bad systems to do things that inflict enormous harm.
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I'm not a fugitive anymore. Never will be in the future. After spending five years in jail, you learn your lesson. I never want to return there.
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Reality is what you can count on.
