"Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What appears bad manners, an ill temper or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone."

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Source : Miller Williams (1997). “The Ways We Touch: Poems”, p.55, University of Illinois Press

Miller Williams

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Source : "Crossfire" with James Carville and Tucker Carlson, edition.cnn.com. May 3, 2004.
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