"I want to rid my heart of..." - Quote by Paul Simon
I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.
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“Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.”
“I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.”
“I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun.”
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“Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and impressible for evil, and it is in the nature of things that he cannot really improve himself without in some degree improving other men.”
“One way to overcome our natural self-centeredness is to try to see things from other people's perspectives.”
“We must look within ourselves, become responsible and provide fresh solutions if we ever want to do more than complain,or make excuses.”
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“Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.”
“Love is the poetry of the senses.”
“I have never promised anything but blood, tears, toil and sweat. Now, however we have a new experience. We have a victory - a remarkable and definite victory. The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers and warmed and cheered all our hearts.”