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• Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Dust

  Song: Only Love Would Know, Album: Waiting for You

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• Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.

  Bob Dylan

  Forget, Left

  Song: It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, 1965

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• The soul needs attention like the body needs to breath.

  Ray Davies

  Soul, Needs, Attention

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• The naked truth is still taboo.

  Bob Dylan

  Naked, Truth Is, Taboo

  Song: Dirge, Album: Planet Waves, 1974

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• The heart says what only the heart knows.

  Lou Reed

  Heart, Knows

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.408, Da Capo Press

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• The hurt gets worse as the heart grows harder.

  Warren Zevon

  Hurt, Heart, Harder

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• Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road.

  Bob Dylan

  Men, Wind, Live By

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• Fame and fortune, how empty they can be.

  Elvis Presley

  Fame, Empty, Fortune

  Song: Fame and Fortune

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• One common adage...that is completely wrongheaded is: You can't go broke taking profits. That's precisely how many traders do go broke. While amateurs go broke by taking large losses, professionals go broke by taking small profits.

  William Eckhardt

  Loss, Common, Broke

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• Stealing is a lazy man's way. Something for nothing, leaves you hell to pay.

  Michael Peterson

  Men, Lazy Man, Pay

  Song: Drink, Swear, Steal and Lie

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• When the other man has none, you don't need a gun.

  Billy Idol

  Men, Gun, Needs

  Song: Don't Need a Gun, Album: Whiplash Smile, 1986

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• It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

  George Washington

  Leadership, Honesty, Individual

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1847). “pt. III. Private letters from the time Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the Army to that of his inauguration as president of the United States: December, 1783-April, 1789”, p.146

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• Harry Truman proves that old adage that any man can become President of the United States.

  Norman Thomas

  Men, Harry Truman, President

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• Trust isn't something that's spoken and love's never wrong when it's real.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Real, And Love

  Song: Believe In Me, 1984

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• There is no profit in deceit. An honest man knows revenge is not sweet.

  Robert Palmer

  Sweet, Revenge, Men

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• The walls of pride are high and wide, can't see over to the other side.

  Bob Dylan

  Wall, Pride, Sides

  Song: Cold Irons Bound, 1997

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• The same rain that drowns the rat will grow the hay.

  Amy Grant

  Rain, Hay, Rats

  Song: How Can We See That Far, Album: Heart in Motion, 1991

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• The only real person you need to know is you.

  Alice Cooper

  Real, Needs, Persons

  Song: Living, Album: Pretties For You, 1969

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• Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Thinking, Fool, Virtue

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• The hurt of a love that is lost has no cure but the love of another heart.

  Christopher Cross

  Hurt, Heart, Lost

  Song: Words Of Wisdom, Album: Another Page

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• The fight to make ends meet, keeps a man upon his feet.

  Robert Palmer

  Fighting, Men, Feet

  Song: Every Kinda People, Album: Double Fun

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• Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.

  Bob Seger

  Tree, Victory, Watches

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• The fish who keeps on swimming is the first to chill upstream.

  Nick Hexum

  Swimming, Firsts, Chill

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• A hungry mob is an angry mob.

  Bob Marley

  Music, Hungry, Angry

  "Song: 'Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)'". 1974.

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• The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.

  Pete Townshend

  Facts

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