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Before Dorothy

by Hazel Gaynor (Goodreads Author)

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“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing

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“If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: inspirational, religon, separation-of-church-and-state

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“I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
― Herbert Bayard Swope

tags: failure, inspirational, misattributed-bill-cosby, success

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“Dance is the hidden language of the soul”
― Martha Graham

tags: dance, dancing

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“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

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