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The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don't have to copy anyone else. If you do, you're second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that's being yourself.
John Denver
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John Denver
Age: 53 †
Born: 1943
Born: December 31
Died: 1997
Died: October 12
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Henry John Deutschendorf Jr.
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Romance lasts forever, love don't fade away. They may take away our future, but they can't stop yesterday.
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Aspen is the life to live, see how much there is to give. See how strongly you believe, see how much you may receive.
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Though the singer is silent…there is still the truth of the song.
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Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.
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It amazes me, and I know the wind will surely someday blow it all away It amazes me, and I'm so very grateful that You made the world this way
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Horses are creatures who worship the earth as they gallop on feet of ivory. Constrained by the wonder of dying and birth, the horses still run, they are free.
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I am the hawk and there's blood in my feathers, but time is still turning they soon will be dry. And all those who see me and all who believe in me, share in the freedom I feel when I fly.
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The nuclear arms race is like two people sitting in a pool of gasoline spending all their time making matches.
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For the children and the flowers are my sisters and my brothers, come and stand beside me, we can find a better way.
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Faith is a kind of knowing it is different from hope. My faith is that life is purposeful of that I'm sure. There is a God, there is intelligence, there is consciousness. And behind all of this, there is incredible compassion.
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To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.
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