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Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.

Dar Williams

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Dar Williams
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 19
Composer
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Mount Kisco
New York
Dorothy Snowden Williams
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I have a sordid past.
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When people in government [make mistakes], they don't say, those people in the government. They say, we've got a problem to solve.
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It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.
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