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Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed.
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Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.
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Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
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Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
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Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their clichés.
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Banks will have to win the confidence of their customers through fair dealing, making good loans, and remaining financially healthy.
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Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
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Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.
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Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
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Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States.
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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
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Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebullience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.
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Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
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Because Dickens and Dostoevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.
Source: Liner notes, The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 (2004)
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