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Virtue is its own revenge.

Yip Harburg

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Yip Harburg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1896
Born: April 8
Died: 1981
Died: March 5
Composer
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Poet
Screenwriter
Songwriter
Edgar Yipsel Yip Harburg
Edgar Yipsel Harburg
E. Y. Harburg
Isidore Hochberg
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Music gives 'wings' to words.
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Did God who gave us flowers and trees, Also provide the allergies?
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Leave the atom alone.
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Follow the yellow brick road.
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When the melody touches your heart emotionally and the words hit your brain intellectually, more than likely you'll find you'll have an excellent song to sing.
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My heart wants roots My mind wants wings. I cannot bear Their bickerings.
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For what we are about to receive, Oh Lord 'tis Thee we thank,' said the cannibal as he cut a slice off the missionary's shank.
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I am a rebel by birth... I contest anything that is unjust, that causes suffering in humanity. My feelings about that are so strong, I don't think I could live with myself if I weren't honest.
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Oh, innocent victims of Cupid, remember this terse little verse: To let a fool kiss you is stupid. To let a kiss fool you is worse.
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No matter how high or great the throne, What sits on it is the same as your own.
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This we learn from Watergate that almost any creep'll be glad to help the Government overthrow the people.
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
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As the writer of the lyric of the song 'God's Country,' I am outraged by the suggestion that somehow I am connected with, believe in, or am sympathetic with Communist or totalitarian philosophy.
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It's a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be...
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Songs are the pulse of a nation's heart. A fever chart of its health.
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Someday I'll wish upon a star.
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No matter how much I prove and prod, I cannot quite believe in God But oh, I hope to God that He, Unswervingly believes in me.
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