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Follow the yellow brick road.

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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No matter how high or great the throne, What sits on it is the same as your own.
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Songs are the pulse of a nation's heart. A fever chart of its health.
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Leave the atom alone.
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Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
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My heart wants roots My mind wants wings. I cannot bear Their bickerings.
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All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.
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There ought to be a law against necessity.
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A Russian child asked his mother : does God know we don't believe in Him?
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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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Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.
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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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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
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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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We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women
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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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Someday I'll wish upon a star.
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How are things in Glocca Mora this fine day?
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My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country.
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