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A Russian child asked his mother : does God know we don't believe in Him?
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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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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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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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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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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Follow the yellow brick road.
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Did God who gave us flowers and trees, Also provide the allergies?
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Once I built a railroad now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
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The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.
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April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
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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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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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We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women
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Virtue is its own revenge.
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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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My heart wants roots My mind wants wings. I cannot bear Their bickerings.
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My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country.
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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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Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.
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Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.
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