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Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.

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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Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.
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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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Songs are the pulse of a nation's heart. A fever chart of its health.
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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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If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
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A Russian child asked his mother : does God know we don't believe in Him?
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Once I built a railroad now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
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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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Leave the atom alone.
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Someday I'll wish upon a star.
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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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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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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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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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When the idle poor, Become the idle rich, You'll never know, Just who is who, Or who is which.
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We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women
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Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.
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