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“I love Country Music but what happened to it?”

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Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. Renowned for his distinctive voice and influential lyrics, Dylan's music spans genres from folk to rock, country, and gospel, profoundly impacting music in the second half of the 20th century. more

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“I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken, I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children, And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.”

Children Hard Hands Young Fall Saws Broken Thousand Ten Gun Rain Tongue Young Children Talkers Portents

Author:Bob Dylan

“Everything from toy guns that spark To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark It's easy to see without looking too far That not much is really sacred.”

Easy Christ Dark Gun Sacred Flesh Sparks Toys Glow In The Dark Toy Guns

Author:Bob Dylan

“For little boys are rancorous When robbed of any myth, And spiteful and cantankerous To all their kin and kith. But little girls can draw conclusions And profit from their lost illusions.”

Children Littles Girl Lost Boys Draws Illusion Profit Myth Conclusion Little Boys Spiteful

Book:A Short Walk from the Station

Source: A Short Walk from the Station

“The East is the hearthside of America. Like any home, therefore, it has the defects of its virtues. Because it is a long-lived-inhouse, it bursts its seams, is inconvenient, needs constant refurbishing. And some of the family resources have been spent. To attain the privacy that grown-up people find so desirable, Easterners live a harder life than people elsewhere. Today it is we and not the frontiersman who must be rugged to survive.”

People Needs Heart Long Has Beens Home Today America Virtue Resources Harder Constant East Privacy Elsewhere Defects Desirable Inconvenient Rugged

Author:Phyllis McGinley

“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”

“Out of the woods my Master came, Content with death and shame. When Death and Shame would woo Him last, From under the trees they drew Him last: 'Twas on a tree they slew Him--last When out of the woods He came.”

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Book:Poems of Sidney Lanier

Source: Poems of Sidney Lanier

“Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. We have not been free to use our own power to name ourselves, the world, or God.”

World Use Names Stolen

Book:Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation

Source: Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation

“From the shaken tower A flock of bells take flight, And go with the hour.”

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Author:Alice Meynell

“Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee.”

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Author:Reginald Heber

“What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it "temporary defeat.”

Ifs Men Past Leadership Defeat Every Man What If Temporary One Time Temporary Defeat

Author:Napoleon Hill