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Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I would call Uncle Harry, and Harry Warren: those were ones who I really became close to. ↗

— Margaret Whiting

#became #best #best friend #call #close

The way I teach people to sing... I have them talk the lyric out until it sounds like something they really believe, like an actor with a monologue. ↗

— Margaret Whiting

#believe #i #like #lyric #monologue

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#close #does #except #go #knowledge

Yet as a team, we can pull together to do some incredible work. ↗

— Randy West

#pull #some #team #together #work

The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, “This is love.” God takes us to the foot of a tree on which a naked and bloodied man hangs and says, “This is love. ↗

— Joshua Harris

#christian #cross #god #inspirational #jesus

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#awake #been #before #cannot #did

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#soul #truth #whatever

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#books #me #metaphysics #more #satisfies

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#both #composition #dialect #english #english language

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me? ↗

— Walt Whitman

#i #large #me #never #thoughts