As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
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More Ben Harper Quotes
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The world awakens on the run And will soon be earning With hopes of better days to come It’s a morning yearning.
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It’s not easy for a mother and son to sing a duet. You can’t just sing about anything.
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It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It’s the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That’s the power of the gospel.
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You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it
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Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
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I appreciate that something I’ve done has found a safe place to land.
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Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent. This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.
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I can change the world With my own two hands Make a better place With my own two hands Make a kinder place.
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If interviews are just interviews or if music is just music, why are we even doing it? You only get so many hours in a lifetime, man.
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You have to do what you believe in.
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It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It’s love.
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Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends.
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I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.
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Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it’s done.
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The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I’ve gotten happier so it’s a damn good thing.
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