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One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple
By the Relief Office I saw my people —
As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if
God blessed America for me.

— Woody Guthrie

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Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew.

Ever'body might be just one big soul,
Well it looks that a-way to me.

Tom Joad (1940)

I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose.

Statement quoted in Prophet Singer: The Voice And Vision of Woody Guthrie (2007)

We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do.

I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

Basil of Caesarea

Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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