"Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem."

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“I am a writer an a singer of the words I write I am no speaker nor any politician an my songs speak for me because I write them in the confinement of my own mind an have t cope with no one except my own self.”

“I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.”

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— Basil Rathbone

Entertainment1892–1967

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"We certainly must contend by every argument against him who does away with knowledge or reason or mind and then makes any dogmatic assertion about anything. The philosopher, who pays the highest honor…"

— Plato

Philosophy

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"And even if. I don't know what the day will bring. Still I can tell most anything. To a girl like you."

— Pete Yorn

Music1974

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Literature1902–1983

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