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I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth
Patti Smith
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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
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Human Rights Activist
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Patricia Lee Smith
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I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection
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A lullaby should be timeless because it's a timeless concept - the birth of the child.
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I think really that's just the basic Christian lesson that sometimes takes us years and years to understand - have equal concern for another human being as you have for yourself or perhaps even more concern for another human being than you have for yourself.
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All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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