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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
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Edgar Yipsel Yip Harburg
Edgar Yipsel Harburg
E. Y. Harburg
Isidore Hochberg
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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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Follow the yellow brick road.
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Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.
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Once I built a railroad now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
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Lives of great men all remind us, Greatness takes no easy way, All the heroes of tomorrow, Are the heretics of today. Socrates and Galileo, John Brown, Thoreau, Christ, and Debs, Heard the night cry Down with traitors! And the dawn shout Up the rebs!
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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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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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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?
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They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above.
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Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.
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The world would be a safer place, If someone had a plan, Before exploring outer space, To find the inner man.
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All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.
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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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WHERE and WHEN, Are lost in space. THERE and THEN, Do not embrace. So before we disappear, Come sweet NOW and kiss the HERE.
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We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women
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Leave the atom alone.
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April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
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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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Music gives 'wings' to words.
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