Anthony Douglas Williams (A.D. Williams) Quotes
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Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.
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'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.
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Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.
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Enthusiasm is more active than faith, though enthusiasm cannot remove mountains nor call into action any of the omnipotent forces which faith can command. Activity is often at the expense of more solid, useful elements, and generally to the total neglect of prayer. To be too busy with God's work to commune with God, to be busy with doing church work without taking time to talk to God about His work, is the highway to backsliding, and many people have walked therein to the hurt of their immortal souls.
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The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.
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Socially we are woven into the fabric of society, where every man is like one thread in a piece of cloth. No single thread has a right to say, "I will stay here no longer," and draw out. No man has a right to make a hole in the well-woven fabric of society.
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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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All is flux; nothing stays still.
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Therefore, the legacy of pan-Arabism as a phase in postwar Arab politics lies not in its failure over half a century to achieve Arab unity but in the way it captured the high ground of all politics: the language and fundamental categories it is conducted in.
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Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.
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It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
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The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
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When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.
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All the knowledge is in the connections
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Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God.
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Mankind must cease harming the harmless.
