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We've changed our reflections, but inside we're just a child. -- Ben Harper
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The very thing that drives you, can drive you insane Got a head full of thought crimes and a number with no name Got an eleventh hour Jesus and a mouth full of blame A casket lined with silver dollars and a number with no name. -- Ben Harper
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Time is really for those who really need it. I mean, I deal with it. A lot of people are slaves to the second, minute hand. I can't do that! -- Ben Harper
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When you have everything, you have everything to lose. -- Ben Harper
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My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. -- Ben Harper
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Love for me is my North Star. It's the highest form of grace. And I love that there's different levels and different ways of showing it, and different representations of it. Whether it's love shown to a stranger, love to a sibling, your child, your parents, your partner. -- Ben Harper
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When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever. -- Ben Harper
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The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have. -- Ben Harper
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These eyes weren't made for crying, this love wasn't made to waste. These arms weren't made for battle, but to share in your embrace. -- Ben Harper
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Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession. -- Ben Harper
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Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell. -- Ben Harper
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My choice is what I choose to do,
And if I'm causing no harm, it shouldn't bother you.
Your choice is who you choose to be,
And if you're causin' no harm, then you're alright with me. -- Ben Harper
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I write songs and I sing them from the deepest part of my existence and I hope they connect with the deepest part of yours. -- Ben Harper
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There's only one proper way a song should go, but you've got to be patient enough to let them come together time wise. Sometimes it's lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up. -- Ben Harper
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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. -- Ben Harper
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I wish you were here so we could walk and talk in the soft rain. -- Ben Harper
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It's so hard to do and so easy to say but sometimes you just have to walk away -- Ben Harper
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But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music. -- Ben Harper
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You're living life in real time, man, and we' ve got a good amount of work to do for each other. Hiding is not an option and you're going to step out and you're going to make mistakes. -- Ben Harper
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Wish there was something that I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you. But I'd rather walk alone than chase you around, I'd rather fall myself then let you drag me on down. -- Ben Harper
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It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man. -- Ben Harper
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The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it. -- Ben Harper
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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. -- Ben Harper
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The spirit is what guides my life, and I'm humbly on my knees in thanks for guidance and direction every day. But God is not something to be preached, it's something to be lived. -- Ben Harper
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Now that you've grown up You can finally learn to be a child We made it to the end of the world But we'll never make it out alive. -- Ben Harper
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Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend ... -- Ben Harper
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We're always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically. -- Ben Harper
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We went for the best overall feel on each song. There are no musical overdubs at all. It's a true live record; it's one of the few true live records out there. -- Ben Harper
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Every man's actions belong to him. -- Ben Harper
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There's no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart. -- Ben Harper
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It's not easy for a mother and son to sing a duet. You can't just sing about anything. -- Ben Harper
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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. -- Ben Harper
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When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken, Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk. -- Ben Harper
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The lifetime we've left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can't be wrong enough and I can't hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain. -- Ben Harper
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Now I love to feel that warm southern rain, Just to hear it fall is the sweetest sounding thing. And to see it fall on your simple country dress It's like heaven to me I must confess. -- Ben Harper
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Sometimes I think to talk too much about music almost cheapens it. -- Ben Harper
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You can run away from home But you can't run away from your pain I sit here alone There's always someone else to blame. -- Ben Harper
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When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use the same colours in every painting. It's just not an option. You can't take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences. -- Ben Harper
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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 -- Ben Harper
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I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music. -- Ben Harper
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Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need. -- Ben Harper
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I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record. -- Ben Harper
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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. -- Ben Harper
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To go through this life and see it through - what it really is - and not be insane or addicted, is a minor miracle for anyone. -- Ben Harper
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Just because you have a hit doesn't mean you're good [at music]. Just means you got a hit. -- Ben Harper
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Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music. -- Ben Harper
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My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better then it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better then how it's recorded. -- Ben Harper
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There's no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty? -- Ben Harper
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It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It's love. -- Ben Harper
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I dont know if hell exists, but there sure as hell are some people who dont belong in heaven. -- Ben Harper
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Of all the states of emotion I've ever been in, music takes me to the strongest state of emotion the quickest, of any other sort of state of mind I've ever been in or been put in by any substance or circumstance, music brings me to an emotional state of being faster than anything I've ever known -- Ben Harper
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I love being on the road, I love playing. -- Ben Harper
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That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual. -- Ben Harper
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My main concern when travelling around the world is finding a place to skateboard! -- Ben Harper
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Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can't explain But I faithfully remain. -- Ben Harper
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You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass. -- Ben Harper
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I refuse to make uninspired music. -- Ben Harper
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They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that's taken my tomorrow, and turned them into yesterday. -- Ben Harper
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We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances. -- Ben Harper
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Take my hand when you are worried Take my hand when you're alone Take my hand and let me guide you Take my hand to lead you home. -- Ben Harper
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Children come running to the truth But you've got to peel the skin to get the fruit And while one's living high another's grieving But what's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening Oh - What's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening. -- Ben Harper
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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. -- Ben Harper
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So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention. -- Ben Harper
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I can't not put myself in the shoes of every person I pass. -- Ben Harper
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Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends -- Ben Harper
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I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk. -- Ben Harper
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Folk is bare bones music. -- Ben Harper
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Don't let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for. -- Ben Harper
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If you're gonna live, then live it up. -- Ben Harper
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I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview. -- Ben Harper
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Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you've ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that's life. Who isn't like that? What's the big deal if I had an arrogant moment. -- Ben Harper
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As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery -- Ben Harper
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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. -- Ben Harper
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People say, "How do you write songs?" I say, "Patience." I may have a track that's hot, but no words. I'll just let it sit for years, because I know they're going to meet. They'll find it. -- Ben Harper
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If you don't like my fire, then don't come around. Cause I'm gonna burn one down. -- Ben Harper
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I appreciate that something I've done has found a safe place to land. -- Ben Harper
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There's so much there, there's so much to heal for. -- Ben Harper
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I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule. -- Ben Harper
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My choice is what I choose to be. -- Ben Harper
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If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it. -- Ben Harper
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If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else. -- Ben Harper
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I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll. -- Ben Harper
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I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday. -- Ben Harper
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The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover. -- Ben Harper
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In my life I have been blessed In my life I have been cursed I have lived the best of times I have suffered the worst Do you know which road you're traveling? Do you know where you want to be? With so many roads to travel, There's just one can set you free. -- Ben Harper
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Every single time I step into the studio, I say, 'Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?' I suppose there's a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship. -- Ben Harper
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I'm really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth. -- Ben Harper
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The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules. -- Ben Harper
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Try it first And you'll see its a blessing And it's not a curse -- Ben Harper
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I'm a living sunset, lightning in my bones. -- Ben Harper
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I really feel there's no limitation on what this band can do in the studio or on the stage. That's an empowering feeling - that we can bring a song to life. -- Ben Harper
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If you're gonna live, then live it up. If you're gonna give, then give it up. If you're gonna walk the Earth, then walk it proud. If you're gonna say the word, you got to say it loud. -- Ben Harper
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As a songwriter, I don't rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits. -- Ben Harper
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If you don't like my fire, don't come around cuz I'm gonna burn one down. -- Ben Harper
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What started as a whisper
Slowly turned into a scream
Searching for an answer
Where the question is unseen
I don't know where you came from
And I don't know where you've gone
Old friends become old strangers
Between the darkness and the dawn -- Ben Harper
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Like a soldier standing long under fire, any change comes as a relief. -- Ben Harper
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As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice. -- Ben Harper
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People who try to define their spirituality sometimes are annoying, 'cause the spirit is something you feel and let guide you and humbly respect. -- Ben Harper
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All that we can't say is all we need to hear. -- Ben Harper
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You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life. -- Ben Harper
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What enables me to believe in anything is hope. -- Ben Harper
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I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar. -- Ben Harper
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Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence. -- Ben Harper
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If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration. -- Ben Harper
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We've all got stardust in our bones ... -- Ben Harper
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I don't know how to not become every person I walk by. -- Ben Harper
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The woman in you is the worry in me. -- Ben Harper
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You can't just say I love you, you have to LIVE I love you -- Ben Harper
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When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room. -- Ben Harper
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Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self. -- Ben Harper
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You have to do what you believe in. -- Ben Harper
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With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one? -- Ben Harper
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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. -- Ben Harper
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My head works in music, so there's always music there. -- Ben Harper
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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. -- Ben Harper
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There's something in everyone only they know. -- Ben Harper
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I just want to keep doing what I feel. -- Ben Harper
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I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then. -- Ben Harper
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Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical. -- Ben Harper
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Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve? -- Ben Harper
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Life's the longest picture you're ever gonna take. -- Ben Harper