Doug Duncan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The Lourie Center provides much-needed services for our youngest and most vulnerable children and their families in our region. Their work and groundbreaking research help our community as well as the nation.
-- Doug Duncan

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If you want freedom you have to come to terms with being okay in the now doing nothing.
-- Doug Duncan

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The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is never used to explain table manners or road safety or gardening, only sex. Anyway, it was bad Darwinism. Taking the example of a monkey and applying it to yourself misses the point that animal behaviour is made for the benefit of the species, not as an excuse for the individual. Being incapable of sustaining a stable pair and supporting children is really not in the interests of our species. Neither is it really in the best interests of the philanderer.
There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.
Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly.
Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.
...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.
The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood.

Doug Duncan famous quotes

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