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I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Beauty
#Beautiful
#Morning
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There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Inspirational
#Inspiring
#Kindness
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If you really believe in the brotherhood of man, and you want to come into its fold, you've got to let everyone else in, too.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Believe
#Men
#Brotherhood
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Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Love
#Inspirational
#Life
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A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Love
#Song
#Heart
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You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Music
#Dream
#Dreams Come True
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It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Tragedy
#Despair
#Modern
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Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Stars
#Brave
#Young Love
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Hello, Young Lovers, Wherever You Are.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Love
#Young Love
#Lovers
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I'd let my golden chances pass me by.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Golden
#Chance
#Shyness
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Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Courage
#Heart
#Walks
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I'm as restless as a willow in a windstorm.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Restless
#Restlessness
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But I'm only a cockeyed optimist.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Optimism
#Optimist
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Oklahoma Where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Oklahoma
#Wind
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For when I fool the people I fear, I fool myself as well.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Courage
#People
#Fool
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The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Music
#Song
#Years
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I'm as corny as Kansas in August.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#August
#Kansas
#Corny
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Ev'rythin's up to date in Kansas City.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Cities
#Kansas City
#Kansas
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Fish got to swim, birds got to fly.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Bird
#Swim
#Fishes
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The dearest things I know are what you are.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
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Fish got to swim, birds got to fly I got to love one man till I die Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Men
#Bird
#Swim
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Berlin's great secret is that he says exactly what he means; sometimes he hits a gigantic line both musically and lyrically -- almost Wagnerian in its strength.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Mean
#Secret
#Lines
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I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Guy
#Wonderful
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Hate
#Taught
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The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay, I heard the laughter of her heart in every street café.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Laughter
#Heart
#Gay
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June is bustin' out all over.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Summer
#June
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If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Music
#Teacher
#Taught
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You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made, Of people whose skin is a different shade. You've got to be carefully taught.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Eye
#People
#Tolerance
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You can have fun with a son, But you got to be a father to a girl.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Girl
#Mom
#Daughter
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Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone, you'll never walk alone.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Hope
#Heart
#Walks
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Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Am I making believe I see in you, a woman too perfect to be really true? Do I want you because you're wonderful, or are you wonderful because I want you? Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream, or are you really as beautiful as you seem?
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Beautiful
#Dream
#Sweet
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I'm not going to run, I'm going to stand here and watch. Every blow will cut into my heart, and tell me who and what you are.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Running
#Heart
#Cutting
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When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feeling sad, I simply remember my favorite things and then I don't feel so bad.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Dog
#Feelings
#Feeling Sad
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Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Peace
#Work
#Ubuntu
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Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Wise
#Men
#Giving
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Why you were born and why you are living depend entirely on what you are getting out of this world and what you are giving to it. I cannot prove that this is a balance of mathematical perfection, but my own observation of life leads me to the conclusion that there is a very real friendship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of life.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Real
#Giving
#Perfection
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There is Nothing Like a Dame.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Women
#Dames
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Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger Across a crowded room.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#May
#Rooms
#Evening
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These are a few of my favorite things.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
#Tragedy
#Favorites Things
#My Favorite
